Essays on CPSU

The Cold War was a global confrontation between the two military and political blocs led by the Soviet Union and the United States, which did not come down to an open military conflict. The concept of the "cold war" appeared in journalism in 1945-1947 and gradually stuck in the political dictionary. After the Second World War, the world was actually divided into the spheres of influence of two blocks with different social systems. The Soviet Union and the United States have sought to expand their spheres of influence. But the rough equality of forces between the blocks, and then ...

Soviet Union was a social, single party state. Its existence is determined within the time frame of 1922 – 1991. The territory stretched from Baltics to the Pacific Ocean, whilst existing, it was the largest country in the world. It consisted of 15 socialistic countries, but the capital was held in Moscow. Moreover, it had more than 100 nationalities within the boundaries, but the majority of population consisted of Eastern Slavs (Ukrainians, Russians, Belorussians). Speaking of the territorial extension it spread for more than 8,650,000 square miles, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was one of superpowers that ...

Mikhail Gorbachez is a well known former and last President of former USSR. He was the Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union (1985-1991) and the last President of USSR since 1988 to his resignation and the dissolution of USSR in 1991. He is a holder of a Nobel Peace Prize (1990) for his work in the peace process. Together with Bill Clinton, he received a Grammy Award for the Best Spoken Word Album for Children in the recording of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. In 1995, he released his autobiography in Germany and in the United States of America in ...