The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 1922 (2022)

The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 1922

The Soviet Union was officially formed in 1922, a country, a political experiment, an ideal, a great scar across history. Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR was a one-party state, governed, controlled, and tormented by a single party rule. That of the Communist Party. Complicated, contradictory figureheads would come and go, men who held this impossible country it seemed by sheer will. Stalin the despot-hero whose cruelty knew few bounds who united a nation to defeat Hitler. Khrushchev the crafty libertarian, who preached reform yet allowed an arms race to escalate. Brezhnev, that unreadable member to the old guard, sending history backwards. And of course Gorbachev, who brought vast change, modernisation, and détente, yet saw the Soviet Union collapse under his rule – the untenable nation. The 20th century was shaped by its convulsions, its purges, its wars, and its leaders.

The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 1922

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The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 1922

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  • 1x1

    Red october to barbarossa

  • 1x2

    100th anniversary 1922

  • 1x3

    Revolution and dissolution

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