former USSR
Russia's communist predecessor
The former USSR refers to the Soviet Union after its dissolution in 1991, or collectively to the fifteen independent nations that emerged from it.
The phrase appears in discussions of post-Cold War geopolitics, regional conflicts, and economic transitions: Several former USSR republics have joined NATO.
It distinguishes the historical entity from its successor states.
- ArmeniaCaucasian republic, capital Yerevan
- AzerbaijanSouth Caucasus country
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- BelarusEastern European landlocked nation
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
nuclear arms · communism · propaganda · Georgia · samizdat · secret police · Iron Curtain · Berlin Wall · Moscow · Soviet Union · Kazakhstan · exclave · Ukraine · republics · Turkmenistan · Soviet-Afghan War · KGB · collectivization
- Post-CommunistPoland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine
- Post-SovietUkraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis