Linked from

The 260 pages that link to Soviet Union, each with the reason it gives.

• Russian RevolutionBroader topic: It consolidated the new political order that emerged from revolution and civil war.

• Russian EmpireBroader topic: It became the successor state governing much of the empire’s former territory.

• Russian Civil WarNarrower topic: The Bolshevik victory enabled the creation of the state that formalized their rule across much of the former empire.

• October RevolutionNarrower topic: Bolshevik power founded after the uprising became the state’s governing system.

• Marxism–LeninismBroader topic: The Soviet Union became the doctrine’s first durable state model and principal center of influence.

• Mikhail GorbachevNarrower topic: Its institutions and republics were the system Gorbachev sought to reform.

• Warsaw PactRelated: The Soviet Union organized the alliance and held decisive political and military influence over it.

• People's Republic of ChinaCompared with: Its collapse contrasts with the People's Republic's continuation under Communist Party rule.

• CommunismBroader topic: It became the most influential state identified with twentieth-century communism.

• Central AsiaRelated: Five present-day Central Asian states emerged from Soviet republics when the union dissolved.

• PerestroikaNarrower topic: Perestroika was an attempt to reshape this state, not merely its economy.

• Red ArmyNarrower topic: The Red Army became the armed forces of the state founded after the civil war.

• Leonid BrezhnevNarrower topic: Brezhnev's leadership shaped the state during a defining period of its twentieth-century history.

• Aral SeaRelated: Soviet agricultural planning drove the river diversions that began the lake’s modern decline.

• Chernobyl disasterNarrower topic: The disaster occurred in Soviet Ukraine and tested the state’s political institutions.

• Central planningRelated: Its planning institutions became the most influential large-scale example.

• Command economyBroader topic: Its planning institutions became the best-known model of a command economy.

• Economic planningBroader topic: Its successive five-year plans became the best-known model of comprehensive planning.

• Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaCompared with: The Soviet model was the political and economic system Yugoslavia rejected after the split.

• YugoslaviaCompared with: Its leadership sought influence over Yugoslavia before the two states broke apart politically.

• New Economic PolicyNarrower topic: The NEP’s experiments shaped the early economic institutions of the state that became the Soviet Union.

• EurocommunismCompared with: Eurocommunism asserted national party autonomy against the Soviet Union’s political and ideological authority.

• Northern ExpeditionRelated: Soviet advisers and aid helped reorganize the Kuomintang and build its army before the campaign.

• Post-Soviet statesNarrower topic: The fifteen countries emerged from its constituent union republics.

• Syr DaryaRelated: Soviet irrigation policy redirected Syr Darya water toward large-scale cotton production.

• Axis powersCompared with: The Soviet Union began the war outside the Allied coalition, then became its central opponent of Germany.

• Mongolian People's RepublicRelated: Soviet political and military support shaped the republic's establishment and development.

• Moscow KremlinNarrower topic: The Kremlin became the most recognizable seat of Soviet political power.

• Osip MandelstamNarrower topic: Soviet political power turned his satirical poem into grounds for arrest and exile.

• State socialismBroader topic: The Soviet Union became the most influential example of a centrally directed socialist economy.

• Sergei ProkofievRelated: Prokofiev returned to live in the Soviet Union in 1936 and composed under its cultural system.

• Vyacheslav MolotovNarrower topic: Molotov’s offices and diplomacy served the Soviet state across its most consequential decades.

• BakuNarrower topic: Soviet rule profoundly influenced Baku’s industry, population, and urban form.

• ComeconRelated: Its industrial capacity and resource exports anchored the bloc's economic relationships.

• Dictatorship of the proletariatBroader topic: Its ruling party claimed to govern in the name of the proletariat.

• South Manchuria RailwayCompared with: Soviet interests and military power ultimately displaced Japanese control over the railway region.

• German invasion of the Soviet UnionCompared with: Its territory, population, and industrial relocation challenged assumptions about a quick German victory.

• Italian Communist PartyCompared with: The Italian party maintained ties with Moscow while increasingly asserting political independence.

• Ogaden WarRelated: The Soviet Union switched support from Somalia to Ethiopia during the war.

• André GideRelated: Gide’s 1936 visit and later account challenged favorable French perceptions of Soviet life.

• CrimeaRelated: Soviet rule brought Crimea into the Ukrainian Soviet republic in 1954.

• MosfilmNarrower topic: Mosfilm operated within its political and economic system for most of its history.

• North Korean famineRelated: Its dissolution abruptly reduced supplies and economic support on which North Korea had depended.

• Władysław GomułkaRelated: Soviet leaders constrained Polish policy, especially during the 1956 crisis.

• Yuri AndropovNarrower topic: Andropov’s authority and political career were embedded in the institutions of the Soviet state.

• Ayn RandNarrower topic: Rand left the Soviet Union for the United States in 1926.

• Boris PasternakNarrower topic: Pasternak’s career unfolded under Soviet rule and its restrictions on writers.

• Mikhail BakhtinNarrower topic: Soviet censorship, exile, and institutions shaped the conditions under which Bakhtin wrote.

• OblastRelated: Soviet administration used oblasts extensively and shaped many current regional boundaries.

• People's Artist of the USSRNarrower topic: The title's authority, institutions, and scope came from the Soviet state.