Soviet Union (post-WWII)

GPTKB entity

Statements (98)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_region
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:USSR
gptkbp:alliedWith gptkb:Eastern_Bloc_countries
gptkb:People's_Republic_of_China_(early_period)
gptkbp:area 22,402,200 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy gptkb:Afghanistan
gptkb:Arctic_Ocean
gptkb:Armenia
gptkb:Azerbaijan
gptkb:Baltic_Sea
gptkb:Belarus
gptkb:Black_Sea
gptkb:Bulgaria
gptkb:Caspian_Sea
gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkb:East_Germany
gptkb:Estonia
gptkb:Finland
gptkb:Georgia
gptkb:Hungary
gptkb:Iran
gptkb:Kazakhstan
gptkb:Kyrgyzstan
gptkb:Latvia
gptkb:Lithuania
gptkb:Moldova
gptkb:Mongolia
gptkb:North_Korea
gptkb:Norway
gptkb:Pacific_Ocean
gptkb:People's_Republic_of_China
gptkb:Poland
gptkb:Romania
gptkb:Russia
gptkb:Tajikistan
gptkb:Turkey
gptkb:Turkmenistan
gptkb:Ukraine
gptkb:Uzbekistan
gptkb:Yugoslavia
gptkbp:capital gptkb:Moscow
gptkbp:coldWarAdversary gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:currency gptkb:Soviet_ruble
gptkbp:dissolved 1991
gptkbp:dominantIn gptkb:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:firstManInSpace gptkb:Yuri_Gagarin
gptkbp:firstSatellite gptkb:Sputnik_1
gptkbp:governmentType single-party socialist republic
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Soviet Union (post-WWII)
gptkbp:influencedBy Marxism-Leninism
gptkbp:leaderTitle gptkb:General_Secretary
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:United_Nations
gptkb:Warsaw_Pact
gptkb:Council_for_Mutual_Economic_Assistance
gptkbp:notableAchievement gptkb:insurance
gptkb:public_policy
industrialization
nuclear weapons development
space exploration
collectivization
sports dominance (Olympics)
gptkbp:notableCrisis gptkb:Chernobyl_disaster
gptkb:Afghan_War
gptkb:political_repression
arms race
economic stagnation
ethnic tensions
dissolution
Great Purge (earlier, but effects lingered)
gptkbp:notableLeader gptkb:Joseph_Stalin
gptkb:Konstantin_Chernenko
gptkb:Leonid_Brezhnev
gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev
gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkb:Yuri_Andropov
gptkbp:nuclearWeapons yes
gptkbp:officialLanguage gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:NATO
gptkbp:population approximately 286 million (1991)
gptkbp:significantEvent gptkb:Chernobyl_disaster
gptkb:Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall
gptkb:Glasnost
gptkb:Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
gptkb:Perestroika
gptkb:Soviet–Afghan_War
gptkb:Berlin_Blockade
gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkb:August_Coup_(1991)
gptkbp:spaceAgency gptkb:Soviet_space_program
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Belarus
gptkb:Kazakhstan
gptkb:Russian_Federation
gptkb:Ukraine
other former Soviet republics
gptkbp:superpowerStatus gptkb:superhero
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Western_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6