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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:historical_region
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gptkbp:area
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22,402,200 km²
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gptkbp:capital
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gptkb:Moscow
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gptkbp:currency
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gptkb:Soviet_ruble
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gptkbp:dissolutionProcess
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began in late 1980s
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gptkbp:event
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gptkb:Chernobyl_disaster
gptkb:Glasnost
gptkb:Perestroika
gptkb:Soviet–Afghan_War
gptkb:1980_Moscow_Olympics
gptkb:Boycott_of_1984_Summer_Olympics
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gptkbp:governingBody
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gptkb:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
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gptkbp:governmentType
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single-party socialist republic
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Soviet Union (1980s)
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gptkbp:leader
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gptkb:Konstantin_Chernenko
gptkb:Leonid_Brezhnev
gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev
gptkb:Yuri_Andropov
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gptkbp:memberOf
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gptkb:United_Nations
gptkb:Warsaw_Pact
gptkb:Council_for_Mutual_Economic_Assistance
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gptkbp:notableAthlete
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gptkb:Garry_Kasparov
gptkb:Irina_Rodnina
gptkb:Vladimir_Salnikov
gptkb:Larisa_Latynina
gptkb:Sergei_Bubka
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gptkbp:notableBattle
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gptkb:Cold_War
gptkb:Soviet–Afghan_War
gptkb:START_I_negotiations
gptkb:Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty
Helsinki Accords (continuing)
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gptkbp:notableCrisis
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gptkb:Chernobyl_disaster
gptkb:politics
gptkb:Sumgait_pogrom
gptkb:Baltic_independence_movements
gptkb:Black_January
gptkb:Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict
gptkb:Tbilisi_massacre
gptkb:1989_miners'_strikes
gptkb:Jeltoqsan_uprising
economic reforms
food shortages
political instability
economic stagnation
arms race with the United States
rise of independence movements
dissolution of the Eastern Bloc
falling oil prices
ethnic unrest
collapse of the Communist Party's monopoly
rise of Boris Yeltsin
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gptkbp:notableDissent
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gptkb:Andrei_Sakharov
gptkb:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
gptkb:Natan_Sharansky
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gptkbp:notableEvent
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gptkb:Chernobyl_disaster
gptkb:Soviet–Afghan_War
gptkb:1980_Moscow_Olympics
gptkb:Boycott_of_1984_Summer_Olympics
beginning of dissolution
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gptkbp:notableExport
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gptkb:ballet
gptkb:film
gptkb:literature
classical music
chess
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gptkbp:notableIndustry
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gptkb:military
gptkb:satellite
heavy industry
oil and gas
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gptkbp:notableLeader
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gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev
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gptkbp:notableMission
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gptkb:Mir_space_station
gptkb:Salyut_space_stations
gptkb:Venera_missions
gptkb:Vega_missions
Soyuz missions
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gptkbp:notablePerson
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gptkb:Andrei_Sakharov
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gptkbp:notablePolicy
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gptkb:Glasnost
gptkb:Perestroika
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gptkbp:notableReform
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gptkb:Glasnost
gptkb:Perestroika
gptkb:Demokratizatsiya
gptkb:Uskoreniye
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gptkbp:officialLanguage
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gptkb:Russian
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gptkbp:officialName
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gptkb:Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics
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gptkbp:population
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~290 million (late 1980s)
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gptkbp:rival
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:successor
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gptkb:Belarus
gptkb:Russian_Federation
gptkb:Ukraine
gptkb:Baltic_States
Central Asian republics
Caucasus republics
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gptkbp:superpowerStatus
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Cold War superpower
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Il-28
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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