Soviet Union: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik • Russia • Sojuz Sovetskich Socialisticeskich Respublik • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics • Sovetsky Soyuz • U.S.S.R.

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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
Babel, Isaac
Isaac Babel
Russian author
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
premier of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Stanislav Petrov
Soviet military officer
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
president of Soviet Union
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
president of Russia
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev
president of Soviet Union
Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
American journalist
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Kim Il-Sung
Kim Il-Sung
president of North Korea
Saparmurad Niyazov
president of Turkmenistan
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov
Soviet marshal
Boris Berezovsky
Russian entrepreneur
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Russian revolutionary

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