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USSR - 1981 - 1 Rouble 30mm (13.0 grams)
- Friendship between USSR & Bulgaria Commemorative Issue -
Symbol for USSR, flanked by CC CP across fields, 1 underneath, PYБЛЬ in exergue.
Clasping hands, flag of Bulgaria above, on left, conjoined to flag of USSR, on
right, ΔРУЖБА НАВЕΚИ below, wheat wreath underneath, 1981 in exergue.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a
constitutionally
socialist state that existed in
Eurasia from
1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the
Russian:
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик
(help·info),
tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik,
IPA abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is
Soviet Union,[1]
from Советский Союз, Sovetskiy Soyuz.
A
soviet is a council, the theoretical basis for the
socialist society of the USSR.
Emerging from the
Russian Empire after the
Russian Revolution of 1917 and the
Russian Civil War of 1918–1921, the USSR was a union of several
Soviet republics, but the
synecdoche
Russia—after the
Russian SFSR, its largest and most populous
constituent state—continued to be commonly used throughout the country's
existence. The geographic boundaries of the USSR varied with time, but after the
last major territorial annexations of the
Baltic states,
eastern Poland,
Bessarabia,
and certain other territories during
World
War II, from 1945 until dissolution, the boundaries approximately
corresponded to those of late
Imperial Russia, with the notable exclusions of
Poland and
Finland.
Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR
grew to contain 15 constituent or "union republics" by 1956:
Armenian SSR,
Azerbaijan SSR,
Byelorussian SSR,
Estonian SSR,
Georgian SSR,
Kazakh SSR,
Kirghiz SSR,
Latvian SSR,
Lithuanian SSR,
Moldavian SSR,
Russian SFSR,
Tajik SSR,
Turkmen SSR,
Ukrainian SSR and
Uzbek SSR. From annexation of the
Estonian SSR on August 6, 1940 up to the reorganization of the
Karelo-Finnish SSR into the
Karelian ASSR on July 16, 1956, the count of union republics numbered 16. As
the largest and oldest constitutional
communist-led socialist state, the Soviet Union became the primary model for
a number of ideologically close
Marxist-Leninist nations during the
Cold War.
The government and the political organization of the country were defined by the
Bolsheviks and their successor, the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
From 1945 until
dissolution in 1991—a period known as the Cold War—the Soviet Union and the
United States of America were the two world
superpowers
that dominated the global agenda of
economic policy,
foreign affairs,
military operations, cultural exchange, scientific advancements including
the pioneering of
space exploration, and sports (including the
Olympic Games and various
world championships). The
Russian Federation is the so called continuation state in exercising
the rights and fulfilling the obligations of the former USSR. Russia is the
leading member of the
Commonwealth of Independent States and a recognised global power, inheriting
former Soviet foreign representatives and much of Soviet military. |
