its 69-year history, theSovietUnion usually had a de facto leader who would not necessarily be head of state or even head of government but would lead...
The Republics oftheUnionofSoviet Socialist Republics or theUnion Republics (Russian: Сою́зные Респу́блики, tr. Soyúznye Respúbliki) were national-based...
The Council of Ministers oftheUnionofSoviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Совет министров СССР, tr. Sovet Ministrov SSSR, IPA: [sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf...
The economy oftheSovietUnion was based on state ownership ofthe means of production, collective farming, and industrial manufacturing. An administrative-command...
The political system oftheSovietUnion took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior...
pyramid 26.6 million people.[citation needed] After the Second World War, the population oftheSovietUnion began to gradually recover to pre-war levels. By...
ministries, while the navy and the air force, if it existed as a separate branch, had their own departments. As late as 1953, for example, theSoviet...
Ukrainian SSR (for brevity Ukraine) as republican ministriesoftheSovietUnion. Among other central bodies of state administration there also were committees...