Soviet Union (USSR)

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a widespread food shortage.

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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last* General Secretary of the Communist Party and the last President of the USSR, and his policies of perestroika and glasnost lead to the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Perestroika means "restructuring", and was put in place in 1986 to jumpstart the stagnant Soviet economy by creating a reliable program to increase social and economic growth. Laws were passed allowing private ownership of businesses, production levels and prices to be set by priciples of supply and demand, businesses to go bankrupt and to conduct international trade. Glasnost, meaning "publicity", was enacted in 1988 and gave many new freedoms to the people of the Soviet Union, including more freedom of speech. Gorbachev also put into place many political reforms, including multi-candidate elections and the creation of the Congress of People's Deputies, that all eventually led to the weakening of the CPSU and the demise of the Soviet Union.

*Vladimis Ivashko succeeded Gorbachev as General Secretary of the CPSU after Gorbachev's resignation but his reign only lasted 5 days before the collapse of the party.

It was an oil-exporting nation

Joseph Stalin's outcome was one of epic proportions. The USSR took over much of Europe and became a world power.

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Yes they did. The US had missles pointing at the USSR, the USSR had missles pointing at the US, and everybody else didn't know what too do.

The Soviet Union had many strengths and many weaknesses. One important and historic problem it faced was in the area of agriculture. The prime example of this was that the USSR had to buy grain from the US in the 1970's to feed the Soviet people.

The US and Soviet Union were never really friends, they were once allys to defeat the growing German Nazi threat, but not friends. The reason being that the Soviet Union was Communist and due to the United States' perception of communism (that it was a threat to our democratic way of living) and our fear that communism would soon out number the democratic countries of the world, we began a Cold War with them. Basically a war with no fighting, its like a staring contest, whoever blinks loses. The United States mean while supplied weapons to democratic countries and the Soviets provided weapons to communist countries. However, while this was going on the USSR was having problems in its own country and was quickly dissolved into seperate countries, and since the USSR no longer existed the US no longer had anything to fear.

Long story short because they were communist.

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Molotov Plan

yes, but only after the us was attacked at pearl harbor. the us probably did not want to work directly with a dictatorship, like Stalin's, but they united against a common evil: Germany and the Nazis.

glasnost

Oficially, USSR had no reaction on bombing. Some of authors write, that USSR speed up invasion in Japanese territories after bombing, but attack forces has been gathered long before first bomb fall.

China

They were working together against the Nazis

Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne to name a few. The list goes on.

The Cold War began as World War II was ending. American leaders saw the power and ambitions of the Soviet Union as a threat to our national security. The Cold War was a war of words and ideologies rather than a shooting war, although at times the Cold War turned “hot” as in Korea and Vietnam. Basically, the Cold War was a rivalry between the United States as leader of the western democracies, and the Soviet Union and the nations that were controlled by the communists.

The Nazi-Soviet Pact was a Truce between Hitler and Stalin - An Agreement that Poland could be split up between them. This act of agression, however, was responded to by France and Britain with a Declaration of War on September 3rd 1939. The reason why Hitler broke this pact is mainly due to his hatred of Communist. In 'Mein Kampf' he stated he believed that Jews and Communists were the reason why Germany lost the (First World) War. In Operation Barbarossa he attempted to race to Moscow and conquer the Russians. It failed and doomed Hitler to a 2-front war and eventual defeat.

Joseph Stalin became the Soviet leader through a process. He was given his initial power by Lenin at his death. However, Lenin wanted Leon Trotsky to rule the Soviet Union. Stalin hid this fact. He then allied other leaders and isolated his main enemy, Leon Trotsky. He eventually succeeded in having Trotsky expelled from the party (and later the entire country), He then repeated the process to eliminate all threats until he was made the absolute ruller of the Soviet Union.

It's sugarcane.

• Cheka (abbreviation of Vecheka) 1918 - 1922
• NKVD - "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" 1922 - 1923
• OGPU - "Joint State Political Directorate" 1923 - 1934
• NKVD - "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" 1934 - 1941
• NKGB - "People's Commissariat for State Security" 1941
• NKVD - "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" 1941 - 1943
• NKGB - "People's Commissariat for State Security" 1943 - 1946
• MGB - "Ministry for State Security" 1946 - 1953
• MVD and MGB are merged into the MVD 1953
• KGB - Committee for State Security 1954 - 1991

the spetsnaz was russias elite fighting force from the end of WW2 until the breakup of the soviet union and are actually still around today, fighting terrorism in russia