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Also Known As All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) • Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (Bolshevikov) • Russian Communist Party • KPSS • CPSU • Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza
Date 1917 - c. 1991
Areas Of Involvement communism
Related People Vladimir Lenin • Joseph Stalin • Nikita Khrushchev • Leon Trotsky • Mikhail Gorbachev • Vasily A. Starodubtsev • Boris Pugo • Valery Boldin • Boris Yeltsin • Leonid Brezhnev • Georgy Zhukov • Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev • Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin • Yevgeny Primakov • Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov

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  • There are fifteen modern countries that were formerly republics of the Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
  • The death toll of the Great Famine (1932-1933) was not revealed by the Soviet Union in the 1937 census, as Joseph Stalin denied that there was any famine at all. As many as 7.5 million Ukrainians perished in the famine, as did 2 million Kazakhs.
  • The Communist Party of the Soviet Union led the world's first communist state.
  • Gulags, or Soviet death camps, were the sites of 600,000 executions.

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