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| | Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The main tasks of the congress were the election of the standing legislature, the Supreme Soviet, and the election of the chairman of the Supreme Soviet, who acted as head of state. | | | The Supreme Court supervised the lower courts and applied the law, as established by the Constitution or as interpreted by the Supreme Soviet. | | | The Supreme Soviet, which had an elected chairman who functioned as head of state, oversaw the Council of Ministers, which acted as the executive branch of the government. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
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| | ICL - Soviet Union (Former~) - Constitution |
| | The Procurator-General of the USSR is appointed by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and is responsible and accountable to it and, between sessions of the Supreme Soviet, to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. | | | The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR promulgates decrees and adopts decisions. | | | A Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR may not be prosecuted, or arrested, or incur a court-imposed penalty, without the sanction of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR or, between its sessions, of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. |
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http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/r100000_.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Timeline: Soviet Union |
| | 1990 - Soviet troops sent to Azerbaijan following inter-ethnic killings between Armenians and Azeris; Communist Party votes to end one-party rule; Gorbachev opposes independence of Baltic states and imposes sanctions on Lithuania; Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by the latter's parliament and leaves the Soviet Communist Party. | | | 1991 September - Congress of People's Deputies votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union. | | | 1933 - United States recognises the Soviet Union. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1112551.stm
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| | World War II in the USSR |
| | The USSR was forced to evacuate its seat of government to Kuibyshev. | | | This was a significant turning point in the war against Germany. | | | Bulgaria made peace with the Soviets and declared war on Germany. |
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http://www.worldwariihistory.info/in/USSR.html
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| | Soviet Union - dKosopedia |
| | That led to a fifty year standoff against the United States and its NATO allies during the Cold War. | | | The country paid a terrible price during World War II, as it bore the brunt of the burden in fighting against Germany, led by Adolf Hitler. | | | Russia occupies about 80% of the territory of the former Soviet Union, and is considered to be its sucessor. |
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http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Soviet_Union
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| | Soviet Union |
| | This finial was used in the Soviet Union. | | | The state emblem of the Soviet Union (corresponding to a coat of arms) had the Earth superimposed by the hammer and sicle. | | | In 1936-1946 the soviet state emblem had 11 ribbons (without estonian, latvian, lithuanian and moldavian) |
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| | The Collapse of the Soviet Union |
| | Soviet Union -- Politics and Government -- 1985-1991 | | | Politics After The Fall of the Soviet Union (James Davis) | | | Soviet Union - A Country Study (Area Handbook) |
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http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/glo-sov.html
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| | 10/29/02 - My Time with Soviet Economics |
| | These estimates were given to Congress even though two months earlier Mikhail Gorbachev had told the Central Committee of the Communist Party that, except for vodka sales and the higher prices paid for Soviet oil, the Soviet economy had not grown for twenty years (“Communiqué” 1988, 1; see also Bergson 1988 and Franklin 1988). | | | In 1962, G. Warren Nutter tried to bring some reality into the estimation of Soviet economic performance with his book The Growth of Industrial Production in the Soviet Union, published by Princeton University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research. | | | This activity led me to the conclusion that the Soviet economy, like a market, was organized polycentrically and not hierarchically as a planning system. |
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http://www.vdare.com/roberts/soviet_economy.htm
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| | Country Browser: Soviet Union |
| | Note: Soviet Union split to become Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan | | | This area contains a list of interesting reports based around the 6253 titles in the IMDb from the Soviet Union (including international co-productions). | | | The form below allows you to search the database for titles from the Soviet Union only. |
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| | Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union Homepage |
| | This homepage examines the last few years of the Cold War, with a particular focus on Ronald Reagan's policy towards the Soviet Union. | | | Feel free to submit comments or questions, or express your views on the Ronald Reagan Presidency. |
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http://www.reagan.dk
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| | CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991 |
| | SR RP73-1, June 1973, Soviet Nuclear Doctrine: Concepts of Intercontinental and Theater War | | | CIA/ER 61-15, April 1961, Soviet Military Expenditures by Major Missions, 1958-65 | | | OPR Research Study, 1 October 1975, Changing Soviet Perceptions of World Politics and the USSR's International Role |
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http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/princeton
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| | History of the Soviet Union |
| | It is funded by a HEFCE Teaching Fellowship awarded to Professor Acton and is being carried out by Dr King, who took his doctorate at UEA and is a specialist in Soviet history. | | | Dr Mike Bowker and Dr Tony Kemp-Welch in the School of Social and Economic Studies provide additional expertise in Russian politics and international relations. | | | What the site does is to integrate the Internet material directly into our key Russian history units: the year-long 'Russian Revolution Special Subject' (Level III) and, in Semester II, 'The History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991' (Level II) and 'Gorbachev and the Break-Up of the USSR' (MA). |
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http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/welcome
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| | The Soviet posters have moved |
| | The Soviet Posters of the exhibition The Chairman Smiles have moved to |
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