Soviet regime
Moscow's communist rule
The Soviet regime was the communist government that ruled the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991, characterized by one-party rule, state control of the economy, and political repression.
The phrase often carries critical connotations, emphasizing authoritarian aspects: dissidents who fled the Soviet regime, crimes of the Soviet regime.
More neutral references typically use "Soviet government" or "Soviet system."
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
- five-year plansStrategies spanning sixty months
- General SecretaryTop organizational leader title
- Marxism-LeninismState-led revolutionary socialism
propaganda posters · gulags · KGB · secret police · collectivization · Communist Party · censorship · class struggle · atheism · Iron Curtain · Red Army · nationalization · party line · command economy · dekulakization · Central Committee · bread lines · red
Soviet regimeliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
free society · constitutional democracy · democratic republic · parliamentary democracy · open society
Soviet regimeWestern Bloc
Anti-Soviet alliance nations
NATO · United States · free world · Pax Americana · Western powers
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