During its existence, the Soviet Union produced many significant social and technological achievements and innovations. It had the world's second-largest economy and largest standing military. An NPT-designated state, it wielded the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world.

Its origins can be traced back to the proto-Indo-European root *wekw-, which means “to speak”. But the word ‘soviet’ also has the prefix so-, which means it translates as “co-talking”.

Mar 22, 2025 · Soviet Union, former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Mold...

Sep 1, 2017 · After overthrowing the centuries-old Romanov monarchy, Russia emerged from a civil war in 1921 as the newly formed Soviet Union. The world’s first Marxist-Communist state became one of the biggest...

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Major military interventions took place in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Poland in 1980–81 and Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. Countries in the Eastern Bloc were considered Soviet satellite states.

The meaning of SOVIET is an elected governmental council in a Communist country. How to use soviet in a sentence.

Soviet assembly in Petrograd, 1917 A soviet (Russian: совет, romanized: sovet, IPA: [sɐˈvʲet] ⓘ, lit. 'council') is a workers' council that follows a socialist ideology, particularly in the context of the Russian Revolution. Soviets were the main form of government in the Russian SFSR and the Makhnovshchina. The first soviets were established during the 1905 Revolution in the late ...

1 day ago · Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

23 hours ago · A submarine that sunk during World War II has been discovered off the Pacific Coast, Russia's Pacific Fleet said Monday. The Malyutka -class submarine went missing during the war in the Peter the ...