References Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, ed.

Rapira was used in teaching computer programming in Soviet schools.

Tereshkova also held several positions in the Soviet government and the Communist Party.

A single stage Soviet Sloika was tested on August 12, 1953.

The slow pace of the Czechoslovak reform movement was an irritant to the Soviet leadership.

Under the terms of the agreement with Qavam, Soviet troops began withdrawing from Iran.

July 2 Polish Soviet War Red Army continues offensive into Poland.

In June 1950 North Korea invaded the South, using Soviet tanks and weaponry.

In combat, the biggest cause of confusion among Finnish soldiers were Soviet tanks.

Volhynia was annexed to Soviet Ukraine after the end of World War II.

On March 2 of the following year the first constitution of Soviet Georgia was accepted.

The fall of the Soviet empire, naturally, reduced Americans' security interest in Europe.

August 13 25 Polish Soviet War The Red Army is defeated in the Battle of Warsaw.

After testing, the aircraft went into series production in 1978 at Tbilisi in the Soviet Republic of Georgia.

Despite its nominal autonomy, it was subjected to strong direct rule from central Soviet authorities.

On August 9, 1945, Soviet tanks entered northern Korea from Siberia, meeting little resistance.

The communist regime at first appealed to its Soviet allies for help, but the Soviet leadership declined to intervene.

Consequences The events in Herat caused the Soviet leadership to realize that their Afghan allies were in crisis.

The Soviet authorities claimed that the Stakhanovite movement had caused a significant increase in labor productivity.

A collection of Western and Soviet made arms and equipment exists ranging from rifles to tanks.

At the end of the Civil War, the Russian SFSR was exhausted and near ruin.

It took place in the Soviet capital of Moscow, mostly centering around a military parade through Red Square.

By comparison, Soviet nuclear weapons were much heavier, and the powerful R 7 rocket was developed to carry them.

But most Russians do not view the entire Soviet period as some sort of black hole.

More than 10 of the entire adult Baltic population was deported or sent to Soviet labour camps.

In August 1939, after another failure of attempts to establish an anti Nazi alliance with Britain and France, the Soviet government decided to improve relations with Germany by concluding the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, pledging non aggression between the two countries and dividing their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe.

Then, on October 23, 1956, a demonstration by students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics escalated into an uprising against the Soviet puppet government in Budapest.

The first extensive fight started on December 8, when Soviet forces began to attack across the frozen lakes to the west.

This is the most common method of transport to the pad and was used for all large Soviet rockets, including the N1 and Energia.

Valentina learned to sky dive through an auxiliary organization of the Soviet Air Force located in her town (Yaroslavl).

Possessing nuclear superiority, for example, allowed Eisenhower to face down Soviet threats to intervene in the Middle East during the 1956 Suez Crisis.

The conflict in Afghanistan also forced millions of Afghan refugees into Pakistan, particularly in the northwestern regions.

Languages Kyrgyzstan is one of two former Soviet republics in Central Asia to retain Russian as an official language, Kazakhstan being the other.

The next year the Uzbek SSR became one of the republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union).

Bratislava was taken from the Germans on April 4, 1945, and Prague on May 9, 1945 by Soviet troops.

Soon after, Bethlen was taken to Moscow, where he died in prison on 5 October 1946.

Gagarin's flight, part of the Soviet Vostok space exploration program, took 108 minutes and consisted of a single orbit of the Earth.

After the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia and Azerbaijan, a big portion of the Azerbaijani territories was annexed to Armenia with the help of the Bolshevik regime.

Behind the wall of military containment, the West ate away Soviet self confidence with broadcasts, student and cultural exchanges, and the success of capitalist economics.

Winter War 1939 40 The Winter War began on November 30, 1939, when the Soviet Air Force bombed 21 Finnish cities and municipalities.

Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko ( January 13, 1919 June 28, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.

History As the Soviet Union dissolved, efforts were made to keep the Soviet Armed Forces as a single military structure for the new Commonwealth of Independent States.

Typical examples of collective farms are the kolkhozy that dominated Soviet agriculture between 1930 and 1991 and the Israeli kibbutzim.

On December 24, 1979, under Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union deployed the 40th Army, commencing the start of the Soviet War in Afghanistan.

Alexandra Kollontai became the first female to hold a minister position, as the People's Commissar for Social Welfare in Soviet Russia in 1917.