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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was a founding member of the United Nations as well as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (Soviet Union and the United Nations).
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] 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 .
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...
The history of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, referred to as the Brezhnev Era, covers the period of Leonid Brezhnev's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This period began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity but ended with a much weaker Soviet Union facing social, political, and economic stagnation.
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire is a 2012 non-fiction book by written by historian Victor Sebestyen. The full text is divided into three parts with 48 chapters in total. The author recounts the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resulting consequences on its various satellite states.
A History of the Soviet Union (1985) [3] Hosking, Geoffrey A. (1991). The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05551-3. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (1992, Second Enlarged Edition of A History of the Soviet Union) A History of the USSR: 1917–1991 (1992)
Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975 is a book by Natalia Telepneva. It was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2022. The book explores the Soviet Union's involvement in African anti-colonial movements, specifically in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau ...