USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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Erscheinungsdatum: 1969

Beschreibung

Size: Non-standard size. Brochure of the USSR Size 24 x 20 cm The USSR that is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Marxist Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991 A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics its government and economy were highly centralized The Soviet Union was a single party state governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital The Soviet Union had its roots in 1917 when the Bolsheviks headed by Vladimir Lenin led the October Revolution which overthrew the provisional government that had replaced the Tsar They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic renamed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1936 beginning a civil war between pro revolution Reds and counter revolution Whites The Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire and helped local Communists take power through Soviets which nominally acted on behalf of workers and peasants In 1922 the Communists were victorious forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian Transcaucasian Ukrainian and Belorussian republics Following Lenin s death in 1924 Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid 1920s Stalin suppressed political opposition to him committed the state ideology to Marxism Leninism which he created and initiated a centrally planned economy As a result the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization which laid the foundation for its victoryin World War II and post war dominance Following Stalin s death in 1953 a period of political and economic liberalization known as de Stalinization and Khrushchev s Thaw occurred under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev The country grew rapidly as millions of peasants were moved into industrialized cities The Space Race heated up and the USSR took an early lead with the first ever satellite and world s first human spaceflight In the mid 1980s the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sought to further reform and liberalize the economy The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing economic stagnation The Cold War ended during his tenure and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well Central authorities initiated a referendum boycotted by the Baltic republics Armenia Georgia and Moldova which resulted in the majority of participating citizens voting in favor of preserving the Union as a renewed federation In August 1991 a coup d tat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners It failed with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a high profile role in facing down the coup resulting in the banning of the Communist Party On 25 December 1991 Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independentpost Soviet states source wikipedia org This brochure is from the early 1970s when the USSR went through a temporary upswing The preface says the following Dear Friends this brochure briefly introduces the Soviet Union the country which was the first to step on the road of Socialism which was the first to put an end to the exploitation of human by human and was the first to give freedom rights to workers Furthermore our brochure explains how the 15 nations of the Soviet Union merged into the socialist republic s friendly association the achievments on different fields of the people s economy the discoveries of Soviet scientists and the possibilities of the Soviet Union to improve its economic scientific and cultural relationship with other countries based on the equal rights and mutual advantages The brochure contains photo illustrations and text about the topics mentioned in the preface The style is the usual demagogue socialist propaganda both in text and in visual sense The photos show happy workers big industrialised cities factories reliab. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2500

Bibliografische Details

Titel: USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Erscheinungsdatum: 1969

Einband: Paper, offset lithography.

Zustand: Fine, light wear.