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Soviet computers remained in common use in Russia until the mid-1990s. [56] Post-Soviet Russian personal computer market was initially dominated by foreign brands like Acer and IBM, which exported computers into Russia from manufacturing facilities abroad.
Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines at the Moscow State Technical University. Steal The Best, a micrograph of a Digital Equipment Corporation CVAX microprocessor used in the MicroVAX and VAX 6200 systems. It contains "VAX — when you care enough to steal the very best" translated in broken Russian as a message to Soviet reverse engineers.
This is the list of Soviet computer systems. The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means "electronic computing machine" (Russian: электронная вычислительная машина ).
No Miracles: The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9910-2. OCLC 1178769176. Fischer, Ben B. A Cold War conundrum: the 1983 soviet war scare (Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1997). online; Gaidar, Yegor (19 April 2007). "The Soviet Collapse: Grain ...
The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Baltic republics on 6 September 1991. [129] Georgia cut all ties with the Soviet Union on 7 September, citing the failure to receive a "sufficiently grounded answer" why the USSR did not recognise its independence when it had recognised the Baltic States' secession. [130]
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982, 208 pages. ISBN 0-19-280204-6; Hosking, Geoffrey. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (2nd ed. Harvard UP 1992) 570pp; Gregory, Paul R. and Robert C. Stuart, Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure (7th ed. 2001) Kort, Michael.
Predictions of the Soviet Union's impending demise were discounted by many Western academic specialists, [7] and had little impact on mainstream Sovietology. [8] For example, Amalrik's book "was welcomed as a piece of brilliant literature in the West" but "virtually no one tended to take it at face value as a piece of political prediction."
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area , extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries , and the third-most populous country .