⠀Soviet Union ☭ Советский Союз (dec 30, 1922 – 19h 37min, dec 25, 1991 y)
Description:
Self-designated name: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик; Советский Союз; Союз ССР; СССР (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh respublik; Sovetskiy Soyuz; Soyuz SSR; SSSR).Capital: Moscow.
National anthem: The Internationale (before 15 March 1944), State Anthem of the Soviet Union (since 15 March 1944): 1) first version of the text (Stalin's Anthem) (1944 - 1956), 2) Anthem without words (1956 - 1977), 3) second version of the text (Brezhnev anthem) (1977 - 1991).
System of government: Soviet republic (before 1990); Semi-presidential soviet republic (1990 - 1991); Presidential soviet republic (1991).
State structure: Decentralized federation.
Political regime: Autocracy.
Economic system: Planned economy.
Social formation: Developed socialism (since 1977 ?).
Type of society: Industrial society.
Legal family: Romano-German legal family.
Basic law: Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (since 30 Dec. 1922 - 5 Dec. 1936), Constitution of the USSR of 1924 (6 July 1924 - 5 Dec. 1936), Constitution of the USSR of 1936 (5 Dec. 1936 - 7 Oct. 1977), Constitution of the USSR of 1977 (7 Oct. 1977 - 25 Dec. 1993).
Supranational Power: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1922 - 1952), Communist Party of the Soviet Union (KPSS) (1952 - 6 November 1991).
Head of the party: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party (1922 - 1934), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party (1934 - 1953), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party (1953 - 1966), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party (1966 - 1991).
Head of state: Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1938 - 1990); President of the USSR (1990 - 1991).
Government: Soviet of People's Commissars (SovNarKom) (until 15 March 1946), Soviet of Ministers (15 March 1946 - 14 January 1991), Cabinet of Ministers (14 January 1991 - 25 December 1991).
Head of government: Chairman of the Soviet of People's Commissars (until 15 March 1946), Chairman of the Soviet of Ministers (15 March 1946 - 14 January 1991), Prime Minister (14 January 1991 - 28 August 1991).
Supreme representative body: Central Executive Committee (1922 - 1938), Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938 - 1991), Congress of People's Deputies (1988 - 1991).
Official, state and national language: Russian.
Titular and state-forming nation: Russians.
Type of interaction with religion: secular segregation type (before 1943), secular separation type (1943 - 1988), secular cooperative type (since 1988).
State religion: not installed.
Major religion: Orthodox Christianity (Russian Orthodox Church).
Primate (predstoyatel'): Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1922 - 1925), Patriarchal locum tenens (1925 - 1943), Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (since 1943).
Currency: Rouble; Sovznak (4 Feb. 1919 - 7 March 1924); Chervonets (27 Nov. 1922 - 29 Dec. 1947).
National day: 7 November (since 1927) - Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution (1927 - 1996); Day of Consent and Reconciliation (1996 - 2004).
Military alliance: Warsaw Treaty Organization (OWD) (1955 - 1991).
Economic union: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (SEW) (1949 - 1991).
Top-level domain (TLD): .su (since 19 Sep. 1990).
Calling codes: "+7"; "8" for an intrastate call.
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Date:
dec 30, 1922
19h 37min, dec 25, 1991 y
~ 69 years