In the Soviet Union, a Union Republic or unofficially a Republic of the USSR was a constituent federated political entity with a system of government called a Soviet republic, which was officially def
Soviet Union Administrative Divisions 1989
Reverse of the 1-ruble note of the 1961 series, with the value in all the official languages of the Union Republics
Flags of all 16 union republics along with the Soviet flag
A hall in Bishkek's Soviet-era Lenin Museum decorated with the flags of Soviet Republics
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government
Republics of the Soviet Union
…restructuring) and glasnost (openness) conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev as part of the Helsinki Accords are cited as one of the factors which led to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 as a result of the Cold War and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, a relic…
Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987
Anti-Soviet rally of about 250,000 in Lithuania, whose Sąjūdis movement helped restore independence (August 1988)
Environmental concerns over the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant drove initial demonstrations in Yerevan.
Andrei Sakharov, formerly exiled to Gorky, was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies in March 1989.