countries, ideologicalrepression was carried out by political repression of the carriers of competing ideologies. Instruments of ideologicalrepression are...
Throughout the history of theSovietUnion, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October...
Before the perestroika Soviet era reforms of Gorbachev that promoted Eurocommunism, the formal ideology of the Communist Party of theSovietUnion (CPSU)...
Throughout the history of theSovietUnion (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity...
TheSovietUnion introduced forced collectivization (Russian: Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of...
legislation or the names of government institutions. TheSovietUnion had a legal policy of repression of political opposition defined in its penal code...
an ideological basis and through proxy wars. In 1953, following Stalin's death, theSovietUnion undertook a campaign of de-Stalinization under the leadership...
руководства, kollektivnost rukovodstva), was considered the ideal form of governance intheUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and other socialist states...
Agriculture intheSovietUnion was mostly collectivized, with some limited cultivation of private plots. It is often viewed as one of the more inefficient...
Religion intheUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dominated by the fact that it became the first state to have as one objective of its official...
The Communist Party of theSovietUnion (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and...
political and ideological rather than economically exploitative: theSovietUnion pumped enormous amounts of "international assistance" into them in order to...
There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry intheSovietUnion, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric...
after the Great Purge, a series of campaigns of political murder, repression and persecution. On 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded theSovietUnion, but...
The history of Soviet Russia and theSovietUnion (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Soviet Russia" and...
The Government of theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the...
After theSoviet invasion of Poland in 1939, theSovietUnion began to repress institutions of the former Polish government, although these repressions were...
Propaganda intheSovietUnion was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting class conflict, proletarian internationalism, the goals...