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Soviet government

The government of the Soviet Union (1922–1991).

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Dates
30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991
Place
Moscow
Also known as
Government of the Soviet Union, Government of the USSR
Over time
  1. Active 30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991
  2. headed by Nikita Khrushchev (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) 27 Mar 1958 – 14 Oct 1964

The government of the Soviet Union, seated in Moscow. In this graph it is also a perspective: claims marked “according to the Soviet government” follow official Soviet accounts, such as Nikita Khrushchev’s letter of 27 October 1962.

It launched Sputnik 1 in 1957 and pursued a policy of Soviet state atheism.

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  • Nikita Khrushchev 27 Mar 1958 – 14 Oct 1964 Chairman of the Council of Ministers Primary record 1

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991 Soviet government
  2. 4 Oct 1957 Soviet government launched Sputnik 1
  3. 27 Mar 1958 – 14 Oct 1964 Nikita Khrushchev head of Soviet government
Proof 10 sources
  1. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XI: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  2. Sputnik, 1957 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1.
    In this way, the launch of Sputnik fueled both the space race and the arms race, in addition to increasing Cold War tensions
  3. Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age, NASA. Primary record
    Sputnik 1, launched on 4 October 1957 from the Soviet Union's rocket testing facility in the desert near Tyuratam in the Kazakh Republic
  4. Backgrounder on Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Primary record
    The Soviet (and later on, Russian) government evacuated about 115,000 people from the most heavily contaminated areas in 1986, and another 220,000 people in subsequent years
  5. The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
  6. Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2002. Scholarship & press
    The General Staff's code name for the operation—ANADYR—was designed to mislead Soviets as well as foreigners about the destination of the equipment.
  7. 26th Anniversary: Last Soviet Forces Withdraw From Afghanistan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 16 Feb 2015. Scholarship & press
    On February 15, 1989, Soviet forces officially completed the nine-month process of leaving Afghanistan. The withdrawal came after nearly a decade of war, which had killed more than 14,000 Soviet soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Afghan combatants and civilians.
  8. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978-1980 (Milestones), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Instead, it took ten years of grinding insurgency before Moscow finally withdrew, at the cost of millions of lives and billions of dollars.
  9. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Internal Workings of the Soviet Union, Library of Congress. Primary record
    The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination of religion.
  10. Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the Establishment of a Direct Communications Link (narrative and text), U.S. Department of State, 20 Jun 1963. Primary record
    a full-time duplex radiotelegraph circuit (Washington-Tangier-Moscow)
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