Soviet Russia
Cold War adversary
Soviet Russia refers to Russia under communist rule, particularly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991) or the Soviet Union generally.
The term often carries Cold War connotations of authoritarianism, central planning, and ideological opposition to the West: Soviet Russia collapsed in 1991.
The phrase In Soviet Russia... introduces a joke format where subject and object are reversed.
Soviet founding coup
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
- LeninSoviet state founder
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- KhrushchevCold War Soviet premier
Brezhnev · Gorbachev · Red Army · White Army · industrialization · collectivization · Holodomor · Great Patriotic War
State-led revolutionary socialism
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
class struggle · world revolution · internationalism · atheism · agitprop · propaganda · indoctrination · Pioneer
Moscow's fortified government seat
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
- Communist PartyMarxist-Leninist political organization
- Central CommitteeCommunist party's governing body
- general secretaryTop organizational officer
apparatchik · collectivization · five-year plan · central planning · state ownership · nationalization · command economy · bureaucracy
First orbital spacecraft
- GagarinFirst human in orbit
- cosmonautRussian orbital traveler
- VostokSoviet space program
- LaikaSoviet orbital dog
spacewalk · Mir · Soyuz · rocket · satellite · space station · orbital · mission control
Divider of forged metal
- Berlin WallCold War partition
- Cuban Missile Crisis1962 US-Soviet nuclear standoff
- nuclear arms raceNations competing for bombs
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
proxy wars · detente · mutually assured destruction · red scare · McCarthyism · Truman Doctrine · Marshall Plan · NATO
Soviet state newspaper
- BolshoiMoscow's grand theater
- ShostakovichSoviet orchestral composer
- ProkofievTwentieth-century Russian composer
- EisensteinRevolutionary Soviet filmmaker
matryoshka · constructivism · hammer and sickle · red star · May Day parade · dacha · vodka · bread lines
October Revolution
Soviet founding coup
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
- LeninSoviet state founder
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
Khrushchev · Brezhnev · Gorbachev · Red Army · White Army · industrialization · collectivization · Holodomor · Great Patriotic War · Stalingrad
Marxism-Leninism
State-led revolutionary socialism
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
bourgeoisie · class struggle · world revolution · internationalism · atheism · agitprop · propaganda · indoctrination · Pioneer · political education
Kremlin
Moscow's fortified government seat
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
- Communist PartyMarxist-Leninist political organization
- Central CommitteeCommunist party's governing body
general secretary · apparatchik · collectivization · five-year plan · central planning · state ownership · nationalization · command economy · bureaucracy · party congress
Sputnik
First orbital spacecraft
Laika · spacewalk · Mir · Soyuz · rocket · satellite · space station · orbital · mission control
iron curtain
Divider of forged metal
- Berlin WallCold War partition
- Cuban Missile Crisis1962 US-Soviet nuclear standoff
- nuclear arms raceNations competing for bombs
containment · proxy wars · detente · mutually assured destruction · red scare · McCarthyism · Truman Doctrine · Marshall Plan · NATO · Warsaw Pact
Pravda
Soviet state newspaper
- BolshoiMoscow's grand theater
- ShostakovichSoviet orchestral composer
- ProkofievTwentieth-century Russian composer
Eisenstein · matryoshka · constructivism · hammer and sickle · red star · May Day parade · dacha · vodka · bread lines
- Former RepublicsRoman Republic, Dutch Republic, Weimar Republic, USSR, Czechoslovakia
- Post-CommunistPoland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria
- Russian RevolutionFebruary Revolution, Bolsheviks, October Revolution, Lenin, Trotsky
- BolshevismBolsheviks, Bolshevik, Bolshevism, Bolshevik Party, Bolshevik Revolution
- Russian placesMoscow, St. Petersburg, Kremlin, Volgograd, Vladivostok
Soviet Russiafree market economy
liberal democracies · free enterprise · private enterprise · market economies · Wall Street
Soviet RussiaAmerica
Western superpower nation
NATO · Western powers · Western Europe · First World · American imperialism
Soviet, Russia, Soviets, Russian, Russians, Russify, Russification