[DOC] [TLE] Soviet Union - Wikipedia [PAR] The Soviet Union officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to 
USSR (Russian: , tr. SSSR), was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent 
that existed from 1922 to 1991. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, 
its government and .... A number of organizations in Russian history were called "
council" (Russian:... [DOC] [TLE] Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia [PAR] Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-
1920s until his ... Under Stalin's rule the concept of "Socialism in One Country" 
became a ... Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase
, which saw ... He was born an ethnic Georgian; Georgia was then part of the 
Russian... [DOC] [TLE] Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia [PAR] The Communist Party of the Soviet Union abbreviated in English as CPSU, was 
the founding ... The CPSU, according to its party statute, adhered to Marxism
Leninism, ... was the root cause, noting that it weakened the party's control over 
society. .... At the end of Brezhnev's rule, problems continued to amount; in 1979 
he... [DOC] [TLE] History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (191727) - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union reflects a period of change for 
both Russia ... Early in its conception, the Soviet Union strived to achieve 
harmony among ... As seen by Lenin, Russia was reverting to the rule of the Tsar, 
and it was the ..... While he had support from the party organization in Moscow 
and the... [DOC] [TLE] History of communism - Wikipedia [PAR] Most modern forms of communism are based upon Marxism, a variant of the 
ideology formed ... Over the ensuing decades, governments using the "
Communist" name .... He subsequently began work on a multi-volume epic that 
would examine and ... industrialization and collectivization in the Soviet Union 
under Stalin's rule,... [DOC] [TLE] Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | historical state, Eurasia ... [PAR] Jun 8, 2015 ... Click here to search ... During the period of its existence, the Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics ... the eastern half of Europe and roughly the northern third of 
Asia. .... of the U.S.S.R. and those of the individual republics, mainly over the ... 
He ruled with the help of a bureaucratic caste, subject to no external... [DOC] [TLE] communism | ideology | Britannica.com [PAR] For much of the 20th century, in fact, about one-third of the world's population 
lived ... in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined 
wages, ... the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the remaining communist 
countries .... According to Marx's materialist theory, history is a series of class 
struggles... [DOC] [TLE] Vladimir Lenin - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of Vladimir Lenin, including videos, ... engineered 
the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and later took over as the first leader 
of the newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). .... Increasingly, 
he saw a party and government that had strayed far from its revolutionary goals. [DOC] [TLE] History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) [PAR] Adoption of Program and Rules and Formation of a Single Party. Differences at ... 
Third Party Congress. Lenin's ... Petrograd and Moscow Soviets Go Over to the 
Bolsheviks ... Revolt of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and Its Suppression. [DOC] [TLE] We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History - The New York Times [PAR] At the time he wrote the United States and Russia occupied vast expanses of 
thinly ... The Americans had attempted, after the Napoleonic wars and their own 
... withdrawal from an old continent as a brash assertion of authority over a new 
one. .... And much as the military strength of the United States and the Soviet 
Union... [DOC] [TLE] Russia under Lenin and Stalin.1921-1939 - Anna Cienciala [PAR] He was shot in April 1938, one of many Soviet writers and poets who perished in 
... Under Soviet rule, the

Question: Seen here, he ruled the USSR for over a third of its history
Answer: Joseph Stalin