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Soviet Union (USSR)
The Soviet Union was a Communist State and the inheritor of the vast Russian Empire's territory. It existed from 1922, at the end of the Russian Revolution, until 1991 when the fifteen Soviet Republics became independent countries. The Soviet Union was treated with both scorn and reverence by the Western Powers and opposed the United States throughout the Cold War.
4,001 Questions
What were the reasons for the attempted Soviet coup in 1991?
The impending new political structure presented challenges to the power of the existing leaders, who were mostly hardline communists. They opposed the reforms under Gorbachev and his new union treaty that would disperse control to the republics of the Soviet bloc. Nationalist movements threaten to split off republics from the USSR, and Russia suffered worsened economic conditions.
What were the following was the eventual result of the allied attempt to contain soviet expansion?
western and communist countries formed rival military alliances (Novanet)
Soviet spy who was traded for powers?
U-2 pilot Gary Powers was swapped for Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher .
In order to modernize agriculture in the soviet Joseph Stalin?
Stalin instituted the policy called "collectivization" in order to modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union. This policy forces individual farms to join together as one large enterprise working according to directions from the central planning agency, rather than by individual farmers. Collectivization came in two forms, "kolkhozes" and "sovkhozes."
In the "kolkhoz," farmers rented the land from the state and ran it according to their own methods, provided they met their quotas.
In "sovkhozes," the government ran the farm while the farmers were just like wage employees with no say in how things were done.
collectivization
What tactics did the Soviet Union use against Hitler?
Hitler attacked the Soviet Union from every location where Germany had troops that bordered the USSR and the states that she controlled. Hitler's offensives were mounted as follows:
- He attacked from western Poland into eastern Poland, and then spread into the Ukraine and Belorussia after he had taken the eastern half of Poland.
- He attacked the northern part of the Soviet Union through Finland, which Hitler had coaxed to his side after they were defeated in the Winter War and were given unfavorable terms following the Soviet victory.
- He attacked first Latvia and Estonia, and then Russia proper through the German control over Lithuania.
What did the Soviet want from the United states when Nixon took office in 1969?
a deal that would let them buy american wheat
Food to help shortages
When did hostilities increase between the united states and the soviet union during the 1950s?
You use the word "hostilities" which to most people means actual war.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and The United States Of America never came into direct military conflict. They did not actually fight each other, ever.
What they did do was to use other countries to fight for them, as surrogates, or stand-ins. This happened in Korea, and in Viet Nam, and in Laos, and in Cambodia. Another example was the use of spies, to try to learn the military secrets of the other side's plans and new weapon systems. Again the use of surrogates was common.
The term "Cold War" is used to describe the period from 1949 to 1990, when the two world super powers were face to face and threatening the whole world with total destruction. The combined Atomic and Nuclear weapons of the USA and the USSR would have killed man kind, and burned the earth to cinders. Total combined mass murder.
The Soviet government reduced unemployment by determining where all citizens would work.
Why did the Soviet Union finally join the allies during World War 2?
NO Germany join with with japan!! they also join with Italy!!
Germany had two alliance japan and Italy togeter they be came the worlds greats army,navy and so on soon thay attack the world!! mmmaaaahahahahah ! and soon they lost.
so short vrigon no they japan and your wrong Iam right and your wrong.
What was not an affect of the soviet occupation and eastern Europe?
decades of war between Eastern and Western Europe.
Who was the US ambassador to the Soviet Union during world war 2?
There were multiple. The war ran from 1939 to 1945. So the list goes:
- Laurence Steinhardt until 1941.
- William Standley from 1942-1943.
- William Harriman from 1943-1946.
There is usually a brief period between ambassadors where it takes time for the President to nominate someone, the Senate approves them, and then the ambassador gets his paperwork in order and assumes his duties. It was several months between Steinhardt (who ended his service in Nov 1941) and Standley (who assumed office in April 1942). I can't say for sure why it took so long, but I'm guessing it's because the Japanese attacked the US in December 1941 and the US joined World War II.
What happened that brought the Soviet Union success?
Before WWII, Stalin initiated the Five-Year Plans, which made the Soviet Union more economically independent by increasing industrial production. The Five Year Plans also prepared the USSR for future wars through munitions production.
During WWII, Stalin was surprised when Hitler began Operation Barbarossa (attack on USSR). Even though he was taken by surprise, Stalin was able to push the Germans back for a few reasons. One, as the Germans advanced into Russia, the USSR troops began destroying potential resources that the incoming Germans. Two, the Germans did not prepare for the Russian winter. Three, the harsh winter caused weapons to malfunction. Four, Hitler made strategically bad moves; instead of attacking Leningrad, Hitler should have focused his forces on Moscow.
After WWII, the USSR was the most powerful land force, while the US was the most powerful air force. France and Britain became second-rate powers in the face of the US and USSR, which partially explains the origins of the Cold War.
What was the reason for the failure of Soviet-style communism?
Because if it only works on paper then it doesn't work at all. The mistake is in referring to communism as a theory when every test given this theory fails. A failed theory is a bad theory. Bad theories seek to blame reality in order to survive. Communism is not the problem it is the reality of the current situation that is to blame. If only everybody in reality would change and be more like the non reality of communism then communism could finally work. But, blame is irrelevant and if communism can't offer a system that conforms to reality instead of asking reality to stop being reality. Systems like capitalism embrace the reality of greed where communism aks that everyone stop being so greedy. But, reality being what it is, only the workers get to reject greed while those that "take care" of the workers keep on clinging to greed. Systems like capitalism understand the principles of supply and demand where systems like communism ignore demand and control the supply. Systems like capitalism understand that costs are directly related to prices yet systems like communism seek to control prices regardless of costs. Communism hopes to create a gargantuan state in order to suppress everyone in order to protect them from themselves so they can finally be free and then mysteriously claim that once that "freedom" is finally obtained this gargantuan state will just disappear into a "stateless society." The real question is not why communism fails in practical politics, the question is what practical person could possibly believe such mindless fantasy as communism could ever work?
What happened to soviet nuclear weapons after the cold war?
Most are still in Russian hands. The Ukraine got some. The remainder have disappeared and have not been satisfactorily accounted for.
Did benieto Mussolini used collectivization to take over farmlands in the soviet union?
Benito Mussolini was the "virtual" fascist dictator of Fascist Italy from the 1920s to 1943. The Soviet Union, at the time of Mussolini's regime, was ruled by Stalin. Collectivization was a term most popular with Stalin's Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union during the 1930s in which resources are harvested basically for the state. So, Mussolini probably did not employ the same economic techniques Stalin did since his Italy revolved more around ethnic origin and nationality rather than the alleged common good in the Soviet Union.
Soviet Union was declared in 1922 as a union of socialist states, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Transcaucasian Socialist Federative
Soviet Republic (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan)
After some annexations and World War II the territory of the Soviet Union was enlarged and as result Soviet Union
included the following states (Socialist Republics):
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Stalin wanted to create a buffer to protect the Soviet Union from the West by creating what?
The Stalin Line was the line of fortifications along the western border of the Soviet Union that began in the 1920's. This was to protect the USSR against western aggression, made up of concrete bunkers and gun emplacements.
Why did bulgarians welcome soviet control after world war 2?
There is no soviet Union and and no Soviets...so no control. In the past Bulgaria was an ally to USSR and Soviets blocks and it was a member of of the military pact of Warsaw, so it had many ties with the Soviets.
Poland
How long did Kruschev rule the USSR?
From Stalin's death in 1953 until right after Kennedy's death (1963) in 1964.
Why was the Battle of Stalingrad considered one of the turning points in World War 2?
The Germans in the Soviet Union had advanced beyond their ability to resupply adequately. Goering boasted that he could do it by airlift but he could not. The further the Germans moved east, the wider the front needed to be, and it was unsustainable. The weather was atrocious and the Germans could not bear this as well as the Russians. The Russians were producing tanks faster than the Germans and the T34 was arguably the best tank in WW2. Although the Panther and Tiger were excellent, there were never enough of them to make sufficent inroads to what had become a stoic Russian defence. The Russians were also receiving much aid from Britain and the US (although not necessarily in the Stalingrad area) and this aid was important to Russia. There was not, after Stalingrad, any significant German victory in the war. Their victory at Kharkov was a setback to the Soviets, but just a delay, no more than that. As El Alamein marked the most easterly German advance in North Africa, Stalingrad was the most easterly point in Russia. Berlin was a very long way away, and distance became the Germans' greatest enemy.
