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Petrovsky Market - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Founded at the turn of the 21st century in the Greater Northeast neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Petrovsky Market has grown to become the staple grocery store for its melting pot locals. Old school ethnic-Eurasian roots and traditions are mixed with a wide assortment of contemporary domestic and imported brands, calling on a shopping experience that's much like home.
Our vast array of items cover a diverse spectrum of desires and cravings - that include; caviar, cheeses, meats, fish, dairy, as well prepared and marinated foods. The word on Bustleton is we outperform our competitors; pound for pound, pickled cucumber for pickled cucumber, price for quality.
Our team members make us who we are by being who they are - English and Russian speaking staff that deliver the impeccable service you have come to know and love. We have expanded our retail location numerous times to accommodate for our ever-growing selection of goods and departments - which include a Bakery, Catering, Dairy, Deli, Grocery, Meat & Poultry, Prepared Foods, Produce, and Money (MoneyGram) as well as Parcel Transfer Service (Meest).
Because our local community is so dear to our hearts, we offer 10% off most products for all seniors (65+), Monday through Thursday.
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OK Farmers - Russia Trip #1. Circa 1950s.
F2012.103.001
Description: Trip to Russia by OK Farmers. Begins with airport footage before traveling to Russia. Footage around the city including buildings and churches. Footage of farmlands and equipment. Footage of the Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg as well as the city streets. Footage of a large stadium, possibly either the Petrovsky Stadium or the Kirov Stadium. Footage of the Kremlin.
Creator: Grover McMakin
Coverage: St. Petersburg (city) in Russia (country)
MARC Geographic Areas: Russia (Federation) (ru)
Extent (quantity/size): 18min 23sec
Media: 16 mm film; Moving Images
AVI 1920X1080 29.97 FRAME RATE
Subjects: Farming / Farming & rural systems economics
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Food Places. Danilovsky Market. Moscow.
Food guide by Anik Anam. Part one.
RUSSIA: SEX SURVEY
English/Nat
When the communists were in power, all Russia's women had to read were dreary magazines offering tips on preserving vegetables rather than their beauty.
But that all changed a year ago when Cosmopolitan magazine launched a Russian- language edition.
Since then circulation has increased six-fold and at a celebratory party last night publishers announced the results of the first sex survey of Russian women since the 1920's.
It was an evening of celebration. The champagne was flowing and 15-hundred of Moscow's rich, young and famous came out to party.
They're the prime targets for Cosmopolitan and the overall message is one of praise.
SOUNDBITE:(Russian)
It's a great magazine. And one we really need because up to now I've never read anything like it in Russia.
SUPERCAPTION: Woman guest at party
In Soviet times women's magazines carried articles on life on a collective farm and tips for good beet root soup.
Now Russia's women can read a magazine which tells them how to achieve career goals as well as a good sex life.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
So we just decided this was the kind of magazine Russians badly need and there is no reason for this magazine to be less popular in Russia than in any other country and this idea of ours turned out to be true.
SUPERCAPTION: Elena Myasnikova, co-editor Russian Cosmopolitan
Circulation has grown six-fold -from 60-thousand to one-hundred-thousand over the last year.
The magazine is composed of a translation of articles from the U-S edition as well as those of interest to Russian women.
And it hit Russia at the right time. The country now has a new class of woman whose aspirations are the same as their western counterparts.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
So they all want to be happy, they all want to be happy in their married life if they are married, they all want to do something interesting in terms of career.
SUPERCAPTION: Elena Myasnikova
In Soviet times sex, officially, did not exist and love for the party was the only acceptable emotion.
Now a new class of woman is emerging in Russia- economically dependent from men and more than willing to reveal aspects of their private lives.
According to the survey released in the anniversary edition, 87 percent have had more than one abortion and more than half have experienced extramarital relations.
And it's this mixture of sex and fashion which is proving so popular.
SOUNDBITE:( Russian)
Everything in it is interesting. We never had a magazine like it. All we had was magazines for woman workers and this is a magazine for today's Russian woman
SUPERCAPTION: woman shopper
The success of Cosmopolitan has persuaded the magazine's publisher to launch another title - Good Housekeeping - aimed this time at married women with children.
And as the Russian editor said, when Cosmopolitan girls get married, she's ours.
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Moscow metro stations part 2
23rd Sept 2018.
Since the only way in to the Red Sq n Kremlin was by metro due to the road closure for the marathon we had a second tour of the other stations.. An extra treat.
Belorusskaya nearest our hotel.
The entire station pays homage to the Belarusian people with 12 pictures on the ceiling depicting their daily lives. It also features pink marble from Birobidzhan that is seriously gorgeous.
Mayakovskaya
Located 33 meters beneath the surface, the station became famous during World War II when an air raid shelter was located in the station. On the anniversary of the October Revolution, on 7 November 1941, Joseph Stalin addressed a mass assembly of party leaders and ordinary Muscovites in the central hall of the station. During World War II, Stalin took residence in this place.
We exit this station to the Red Sq.
Teatralnaya Station has fluted pylons faced with labradorite and white marble.
After the Red Sq we left by metro for the circus.
Ploschad Revolyutsii
This impressive station, opened in 1938, features no less than 76 magnificent bronze statues of soldiers, farmers, schoolchildren, workers and a whole host of other characters who helped “defend the Soviet nation”. One of the statues, a dog, is said to bring good luck to those who rub its nose. Ploschad Revolyutsii is at the dead centre of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and is the best stop for visiting Red Square.
Arbatskaya was designed by Leonid Polyakov, Valentin Pelevin and Yury Zenkevich. Since it was meant to serve as a bomb shelter as well as a Metro station, Arbatskaya is both large (the 250-m platform is the second-longest in Moscow) and deep (41 m underground). The main tunnel is elliptical in cross-section, an unusual departure from the standard circular design. The station features low, square pylons faced with red marble and a high vaulted ceiling elaborately decorated with ornamental brackets, floral reliefs, and chandeliers.
The Leninskie (now Vorobyevy) Gory metro station is on a glassed-in bridge across the Moskva River on Vorobyevy Hills, one of the most picturesque parts of the city - a riverbank islet of greenery and an excellent recreation area.
Universitet (Russian: Университе́т, English: University), named after nearby Moscow State University, is a station on the Moscow Metro's Sokolnicheskaya Line. It opened in 1959 and features rectangular white marble pylons and tiled walls
Ukrainian Election Mission (2) 2004. Part Two.
Repeat Second Round Presidential Election
Orange Revolution
December 2004
By
Michael Kostiuk
These are a series of videos that cover my observations as a Canadian OCSE election observer for the Repeat Second Round Ukrainian Presidential Election on December 26 2004. The government of Canada sent 100 OSCE Observers and 400 Canada Corps election observers under the direction of Former Prime Minister John Turner to Ukraine for the December election.
My area of observation was the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk. It is located in the south-east section of country on the Dnipro River.
This part of the series shows many scenes of the area in and around Dnipropetrovsk as well as the OSCE Team 2319 of which I was assigned as an election observer.
A complete report is available on my home page at: or
I have also created a special Video report on Trams in Dnipropetrovsk and I placed it on a different section of YouTube here:
The city of Dnipropetrovsk was founded in 1787 by Count Potemkin on the order of Catherine the Great on the site of a kozak fortress. The founding took place a short time after the Kozaks and Russians had together fought against the Turks who were in possession of the Black Sea area. After the peace treaty the Russians took control of the rich farmland in the area. To this day the local people still take pride in their kozak heritage. The original name of the town was Ekaterinoslav, but in 1926 the growing city was renamed Dnipropetrovsk in honour of Grigoriy Petrovsky who was the first leader of the Ukrainian Soviet republic. The region has a population of 3.7 million and the main industries are heavy machinery, chemicals, food products as well as rockets. Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian President Kuchma as well as his son-in-law are from the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Moscow (; Russian: Москва́, tr. Moskvá, IPA: [mɐˈskva] (listen)) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17 million within the urban area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities.
Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city (both by population and by area) entirely on the European continent. By broader definitions Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the 14th largest metro area, the 18th largest agglomeration, the 14th largest urban area, and the 11th largest by population within city limits worldwide. According to Forbes 2013, Moscow has been ranked as the ninth most expensive city in the world by Mercer and has one of the world's largest urban economies, being ranked as an alpha global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and is also one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world according to the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index.
Moscow is the northernmost and coldest megacity and metropolis on Earth. It is home to the Ostankino Tower, the tallest free standing structure in Europe; the Federation Tower, the second-tallest skyscraper in Europe; and the Moscow International Business Center. By its territorial expansion on July 1 2012 southwest into the Moscow Oblast, the area of the capital more than doubled, going from 1,091 to 2,511 square kilometers (421 to 970 sq mi), resulting in Moscow becoming the largest city on the European continent by area; it also gained an additional population of 233,000 people.Moscow is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District of European Russia, making it Europe's most populated inland city. The city is well known for its architecture, particularly its historic buildings such as Saint Basil's Cathedral with its colourful architectural style. With over 40 percent of its territory covered by greenery, it is one of the greenest capitals and major cities in Europe and the world, having the largest forest in an urban area within its borders—more than any other major city—even before its expansion in 2012.
The city has served as the capital of a progression of states, from the medieval Grand Duchy of Moscow and the subsequent Tsardom of Russia to the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union and the contemporary Russian Federation.
Moscow is the seat of power of the Government of Russia, being the site of the Moscow Kremlin, a medieval city-fortress that is today the residence for work of the President of Russia. The Moscow Kremlin and Red Square are also one of several World Heritage Sites in the city. Both chambers of the Russian parliament (the State Duma and the Federation Council) also sit in the city. Moscow is considered the centre of Russian culture, having served as the home of Russian artists, scientists and sports figures and because of the presence of museums, academic and political institutions and theatres.
The city is served by a transit network, which includes four international airports, nine railway terminals, numerous trams, a monorail system and one of the deepest underground rapid transit systems in the world, the Moscow Metro, the fourth-largest in the world and largest outside Asia in terms of passenger numbers, and the busiest in Europe. It is recognised as one of the city's landmarks due to the rich architecture of its 200 stations.Moscow has acquired a number of epithets, most referring to its size and preeminent status within the nation: The Third Rome (Третий Рим), the Whitestone One (Белокаменная), the First Throne (Первопрестольная), the Forty Soroks (Сорок Сороков) (sorok meaning both forty, a great many and a district or parish in Old Russian).
Moscow is also one of the twelve Hero Cities. The demonym for a Moscow res ...
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The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious persecution in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely prohibited religious activities and called for a heightened attack on religion in order to further disseminate atheism. This had been preceded in 1928 at the fifteenth party congress, where Joseph Stalin criticized the party for failure to produce more active and persuasive anti-religious propaganda. This new phase coincided with the beginning of the forced mass collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of the few remaining private enterprises.
Many of those who had been arrested in the 1920s would continue to remain in prison throughout the 1930s and beyond.
The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labour camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited. More than 85,000 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937 alone. Only a twelfth of the Russian Orthodox Church's priests were left functioning in their parishes by 1941.In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to less than 500.The campaign slowed down in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and came to an abrupt end after the commencement of Operation Barbarossa. The challenge produced by the German invasion would ultimately prevent the public withering away of religion in Soviet society.This campaign, like the campaigns of other periods that formed the basis of the USSR's efforts to eliminate religion and replace it with atheism supported with a materialist world view, was accompanied with official claims that there was no religious persecution in the USSR, and that believers who were being targeted were for other reasons. Believers were in fact being widely targeted and persecuted for their belief or promotion of religion, as part of the state's campaign to disseminate atheism, but officially the state claimed that no such persecution existed and that the people being targeted - when they admitted that people were being targeted - were only being attacked for resistance to the state or breaking the law. This guise served Soviet propaganda abroad, where it tried to promote a better image of itself especially in light of the great criticism against it from foreign religious influences.
Российская империя. Серия 8. Александр I. Часть 2
Российская империя. Проект Леонида Парфёнова
Александр I. Часть 2
Отечественная война 1812 года.
Бородинская битва, сдача Москвы, первые партизаны, переправа через Березину, изгнание Наполеона из России.
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Священный союз монархов.
Деятельность Аракчеева и военные поселения.
Царство Польское.
Начало Кавказской войны — самой долгой в истории империи.
Село Яраг — столица газавата.
Новый стиль империи — Русский ампир.
Кризис царствования, болезнь и смерть Александра I; легенда о старце Фёдоре Кузьмиче.
List of department stores by country | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:17 1 Africa
00:00:25 1.1 Ghana
00:00:39 1.2 Kenya
00:00:58 1.3 Nigeria
00:01:11 1.4 South Africa
00:01:21 1.5 Tanzania
00:01:38 1.6 Tunisia
00:01:51 1.7 Zimbabwe
00:02:02 1.8 Ethiopia
00:02:13 2 North America
00:02:22 2.1 Canada
00:13:22 2.2 El Salvador
00:13:48 2.3 Haiti
00:14:13 2.4 Mexico
00:14:38 2.5 Puerto Rico
00:15:10 2.6 United States
00:15:19 3 South America
00:15:28 3.1 Argentina
00:15:44 3.2 Bolivia
00:15:56 3.3 Brazil
00:16:07 3.4 Chile
00:17:07 3.5 Colombia
00:17:38 3.6 Ecuador
00:17:58 3.7 Peru
00:18:46 3.8 Venezuela
00:19:55 4 Asia
00:20:03 4.1 Bangladesh
00:20:17 4.2 Brunei
00:20:34 4.3 Cambodia
00:20:46 4.4 China
00:21:13 4.5 Hong Kong
00:21:51 4.6 India
00:22:26 4.7 Indonesia
00:23:44 4.8 Iran
00:23:58 4.9 Israel
00:24:06 4.10 Japan
00:24:15 4.11 Laos
00:24:27 4.12 Macau
00:24:39 4.13 Malaysia
00:25:57 4.14 Nepal
00:26:10 4.15 Pakistan
00:26:54 4.16 Philippines
00:27:24 4.17 Saudi Arabia
00:27:30 4.18 Singapore
00:28:04 4.19 South Korea
00:30:43 4.20 Sri Lanka
00:30:59 4.21 Taiwan
00:31:39 4.22 Thailand
00:40:12 4.23 United Arab Emirates
00:40:38 4.24 Vietnam
00:41:04 4.25 Lebanon
00:41:20 5 Europe
00:41:29 5.1 Austria
00:41:31 5.2 Azerbaijan
00:41:42 5.3 Belgium
00:41:58 5.4 Bulgaria
00:42:16 5.5 Czech Republic
00:42:21 5.6 Cyprus
00:42:28 5.7 Denmark
00:42:56 5.8 Estonia
00:43:03 5.9 Finland
00:43:10 5.10 France
00:43:42 5.11 Germany
00:44:58 5.12 Greece
00:45:22 5.13 Hungary
00:45:26 5.14 Iceland
00:45:37 5.15 Ireland
00:45:55 5.16 Italy
00:46:40 5.17 Latvia
00:46:54 5.18 Lithuania
00:47:16 5.19 Luxembourg
00:47:30 5.20 Netherlands
00:47:47 5.21 Norway
00:47:55 5.22 Poland
00:48:01 5.23 Portugal
00:48:18 5.24 Romania
00:48:21 5.25 Russia
00:48:53 5.26 Serbia
00:48:58 5.27 Slovakia
00:49:00 5.28 Slovenia
00:49:16 5.29 Spain
00:50:03 5.30 Sweden
00:50:30 5.31 Switzerland
00:51:32 5.32 United Kingdom
00:51:41 5.33 Turkey
00:52:23 6 Oceania
00:52:32 6.1 Australia
00:54:21 6.2 New Zealand
00:54:37 7 See also
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This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores.
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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR or UkrSSR or UkSSR; Ukrainian: Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, Украї́нська РСР, УРСР ; Russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Украи́нская ССР , УССР ; see Name section below), also known as the Soviet Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from the Union's inception in 1922 to its breakup in 1991. The republic was governed by the Communist Party of Ukraine as a unitary one-party socialist soviet republic.
The Ukrainian SSR was a founding member of the United Nations, although it was legally represented by the All-Union state in its affairs with countries outside of the Soviet Union. Upon the Soviet Union's dissolution and perestroika, the Ukrainian SSR was transformed into the modern nation-state and renamed itself to Ukraine.Throughout its 72-year history, the republic's borders changed many times, with a significant portion of what is now Western Ukraine being annexed by Soviet forces in 1939 from the Republic of Poland, and the addition of Zakarpattia in 1946. From the start, the eastern city of Kharkiv served as the republic's capital. However, in 1934, the seat of government was subsequently moved to the city of Kiev, Ukraine's historic capital. Kiev remained the capital for the rest of the Ukrainian SSR's existence, and remained the capital of independent Ukraine after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Geographically, the Ukrainian SSR was situated in Eastern Europe to the north of the Black Sea, bordered by the Soviet republics of Moldavia, Byelorussia, and the Russian SFSR. The Ukrainian SSR's border with Czechoslovakia formed the Soviet Union's western-most border point. According to the Soviet Census of 1989 the republic had a population of 51,706,746 inhabitants, which fell sharply after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
For most of its existence, it ranked second only to the Russian SFSR in population, economic and political power.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 22 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). Russians dominated the Soviet regime. Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk.
Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union had spanned eleven time zones and incorporated a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, the Soviet Union shared land borders with Norway, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shared its maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the US state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. With an area of 22,402,200 square kilometres (8,649,500 sq mi), the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the third most populous, with over 288 million people as of 1989, with 80% of the population living in the western, European part of the country.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed by the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR which legalized the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics that had occurred from 1918. Following Lenin's death in 1924 and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin committed the state's ideology to Marxism–Leninism (which he created) and constructed a command economy which led to a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization. During this period of totalitarian rule, political paranoia fermented and the late-1930s Great Purge removed Stalin's opponents within and outside of the party via arbitrary arrests and persecutions of many people, resulting in over 600,000 deaths. Suppression of political critics and forced labor were carried out by Stalin's government. In 1933, a major famine that became known as the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine struck multiple Soviet grain-growing regions, causing the deaths of some 3 to 7 million people.In August 1939, days before the start of World War II, the Soviets signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Germany, after which the two countries invaded Poland in September 1939. In June 1941, the pact collapsed as Germany turned to attack the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad and Kursk. The territories overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Soviet Union and the postwar division of Europe into capitalist and communist halves would lead to increased tensions with the West, led by the United States of America.
The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Eastern Bloc, united under the Warsaw Pact in 1955, confronted the Western Bloc, united under NATO in 1949. On 5 March 1953, Stalin died and was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1956 denounced Stalin and began the de-Stalinization of Soviet society through the Khrushchev Thaw. The Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race, with the first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight. Dissatisfied with Khrushchev's policies, the Communist Party's conservative wing led a coup d'état against Khrus ...
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk.
Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union had spanned eleven time zones and incorporated a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, the Soviet Union shared land borders with Norway, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shared its maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the US state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. With an area of 22,402,200 square kilometres (8,649,500 sq mi), the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the third most populous, with over 288 million people as of 1989, with 80% of the population living in the western, European part of the country.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed by the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR which legalized the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics that had occurred from 1918. Following Lenin's death in 1924 and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin committed the state's ideology to Marxism–Leninism (which he created) and constructed a command economy which led to a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization. During this period of totalitarian rule, political paranoia fermented and the late-1930s Great Purge removed Stalin's opponents within and outside of the party via arbitrary arrests and persecutions of many people, resulting in over 600,000 deaths. Suppression of political critics and forced labor were carried out by Stalin's government. In 1933, a major famine that became known as the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine struck multiple Soviet grain-growing regions, causing the deaths of some 3 to 7 million people.In August 1939, days before the start of World War II, the Soviets signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Germany, after which the two countries invaded Poland in September 1939. In June 1941, the pact collapsed as Germany turned to attack the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad and Kursk. The territories overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Soviet Union and the postwar division of Europe into capitalist and communist halves would lead to increased tensions with the West, led by the United States of America.
The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Eastern Bloc, united under the Warsaw Pact in 1955, confronted the Western Bloc, united under NATO in 1949. On 5 March 1953, Stalin died and was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1956 denounced Stalin and began the de-Stalinization of Soviet society through the Khrushchev Thaw. The Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race, with the first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight. Dissatisfied with Khrushchev's policies, the Communist Party's conservative wing led a coup d'état against Khrushch ...
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union or Russia, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 22 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). Russians dominated the Soviet regime. Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk.
Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union had spanned eleven time zones and incorporated a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, the Soviet Union shared land borders with Norway, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shared its maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the US state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. With an area of 22,402,200 square kilometres (8,649,500 sq mi), the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the third most populous, with over 288 million people as of 1989, with 80% of the population living in the western, European part of the country.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed by the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR which legalized the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics that had occurred from 1918. Following Lenin's death in 1924 and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin committed the state's ideology to Marxism–Leninism (which he created) and constructed a command economy which led to a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization. During this period of totalitarian rule, political paranoia fermented and the late-1930s Great Purge removed Stalin's opponents within and outside of the party via arbitrary arrests and persecutions of many people, resulting in over 600,000 deaths. Suppression of political critics and forced labor were carried out by Stalin's government. In 1933, a major famine that became known as the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine struck multiple Soviet grain-growing regions, causing the deaths of some 3 to 7 million people.In August 1939, days before the start of World War II, the Soviets signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Germany, after which the two countries invaded Poland in September 1939. In June 1941, the pact collapsed as Germany turned to attack the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad and Kursk. The territories overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Soviet Union and the postwar division of Europe into capitalist and communist halves would lead to increased tensions with the West, led by the United States of America.
The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Eastern Bloc, united under the Warsaw Pact in 1955, confronted the Western Bloc, united under NATO in 1949. On 5 March 1953, Stalin died and was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1956 denounced Stalin and began the de-Stalinization of Soviet society through the Khrushchev Thaw. The Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race, with the first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight. Dissatisfied with Khrushchev's policies, the Communist Party's conservative wing led a coup d'état aga ...
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00:06:22 1 Name
00:09:00 2 Geography, climate and environment
00:11:23 3 History
00:12:42 3.1 Revolution and foundation
00:15:48 3.2 Unification of republics
00:18:02 3.3 Stalin era
00:24:26 3.3.1 1930s
00:27:57 3.3.2 World War II
00:32:04 3.3.3 Cold War
00:34:15 3.4 Khrushchev era
00:38:02 3.5 Era of Stagnation
00:40:01 3.6 Gorbachev era
00:45:14 3.7 Dissolution
00:50:33 3.7.1 Post-Soviet states
00:51:34 4 Foreign affairs
00:51:44 4.1 Organizations
00:56:23 4.2 Early Soviet foreign policies (1919–1939)
01:00:06 4.3 World War II era (1939–1945)
01:00:19 4.4 Cold War era (1945–1991)
01:00:32 5 Politics
01:01:03 5.1 Communist Party
01:03:42 5.2 Government
01:06:25 5.3 Separation of power and reform
01:09:21 5.4 Judicial system
01:10:04 6 Administrative divisions
01:13:03 7 Economy
01:21:05 7.1 Energy
01:23:15 7.2 Science and technology
01:25:52 7.3 Transport
01:28:03 8 Demographics
01:31:17 9 Social history
01:31:27 9.1 Women and fertility
01:32:51 9.2 Education
01:35:20 9.3 Ethnic groups
01:37:42 9.4 Health
01:40:26 9.5 Language
01:42:16 9.6 Religion
01:47:15 10 Military
01:47:24 11 Legacy
01:47:33 12 Culture
01:50:23 13 Sport
01:54:17 14 See also
01:55:03 14.1 Conflicts
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk. It spanned over 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) east to west across 11 time zones, and over 7,200 kilometres (4,500 mi) north to south. It had five climate zones: tundra, taiga, steppes, desert and mountains.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the 1917 October Revolution, when the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed by a treaty which legalized the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics that had occurred from 1918. Following Lenin's death in 1924 and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin committed the state's ideology to Marxism–Leninism (which he created) and constructed a command economy which led to a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization. During his rule, political paranoia fermented and the Great Purge removed Stalin's opponents within and outside of the party via arbitrary arrests and persecutions of many people, resulting in at least 600,000 deaths. In 1933, a major famine struck the country, causing the deaths of some 3 to 7 million people.Before the start of World War II, the Soviets signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, agreeing to non-aggression with Germany, after which the USSR invaded Poland on 17 September 1939. In June 1941, Germany broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad and Kursk. The territories overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Soviet Union. The post-war division of Europe into capitalist and communist halves would lead to increased tensions with the United States-led Western Bloc, known as the Cold War. Stalin died in 1953 and was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrush ...