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History of the USSR and CIS

History of the USSR and CIS

Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J. McCarthy
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781522532644|ISBN10: 1522532641|EISBN13: 9781522532651
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3264-4.ch001
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Puffer, Sheila M., and Daniel J. McCarthy. "History of the USSR and CIS." Economic and Geopolitical Perspectives of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eurasia, edited by Oxana Karnaukhova, et al., IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3264-4.ch001

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Puffer, S. M. & McCarthy, D. J. (2018). History of the USSR and CIS. In O. Karnaukhova, A. Udovikina, & B. Christiansen (Eds.), Economic and Geopolitical Perspectives of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eurasia (pp. 1-18). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3264-4.ch001

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Puffer, Sheila M., and Daniel J. McCarthy. "History of the USSR and CIS." In Economic and Geopolitical Perspectives of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eurasia, edited by Oxana Karnaukhova, Alexandra Udovikina, and Bryan Christiansen, 1-18. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3264-4.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the history of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, from the time of its creation as a result of the 1917 Russian Revolution, to its dissolution in 1991. The major emphasis is on economic conditions, with political and social conditions as background. The chapter then discusses The Commonwealth of Independent States, the alliance that included most of the 15 former Soviet republics that became independent countries. Developments in Russia, the largest both geographically and demographically, as well as the most powerful of the CIS countries, are the major focus from 1991 to 2017.

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