Soviet Domination

Map of the Ex-U.S.S.R. (former Soviet Union) and Iron Curtain Countries.

The Soviets and the Poles did not trust each other. Soviet partisans in Poland often had disagreements with Polish resistance troops that were allied to the Home Army.

Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, set in motion events designed to cause a famine in the Ukraine to destroy the people there seeking independence from his rule.

4 himself, and who needs, even craves domination. A brainless, frightened who has a blind and boundless devotion to his masters, who lives in abject fear of

The word “Soviet” is derived from a Russian word meaning council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord, and all ultimately deriving from the Proto-Slavic verbal

Mikhail Gorbachev: March 2, 1931 Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU

Valery Yarynich glances nervously over his shoulder. Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit

1. Stagnation in the 1970s 2. Western Engagement with the USSR 3. Gorbachev’s Reforms 4. The Loss of Eastern Europe 5. Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Commanding 160,000 troops, Mikhail N. Tukhachevsky was said to be the Red Army’s most brilliant general. If the newly resurrected Polish nation was to survive

The Soviet Armed Forces, also called the Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Russian: Вооружённые