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Ukrainians
deportation (First World War) 99
radical nationalism in European states
534–5
Ulam, Adam B. 27
Ulbricht, Walter, East German president 274
Ul’ianov, Vladimir see Lenin, V. I.
Ul’ianovskii, Rostislav 686, 692
Ulmanis, Karlis, Latvia 527, 533
Unger, A. L. 53
Uniate (Greek Catholic) Church, in
Ukraine 529, 541, 544
Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 73
Union of Cinematographers 624
Union of Landowners and Farmers 128
Union of Private Landed Proprietors 436
Union of Private Peasant Farmers 434
Union of Theatre Workers 629
Union for Women’s Equality 470
United Nations 224
human rights standards 307
recognition of former Soviet states 546
United States of America 21, 26, 219
and Afghanistan 312, 692
and America as ‘good society ...in
operation’ 28
assumption of USSR as threat 20–1, 22–8,
241, 306
and Brezhnev 306
cultural influence (early 1920s) 171, 590, 591
and early Soviet Russia 10, 13–14
economic aid to USSR 223, 233
influence over Europe 665, 675, 680
and Japan 652
Khrushchev and 286
and Korean War 672
and nuclear threat 241, 306
and nuclear weapons parity 306, 573
relations with 20, 54, 307, 647
relative strength 241, 306, 336
and Second World War 225, 659
Soviet studies in 10, 37–9, 40
as threat to USSR and socialism 663
view of Bolshevism 9
view of show trials (1936–8) 17
see also Reagan, Ronald
Unity political coalition 378
universities 572
and academic freedom (1905) 550
national (native) 499
women at 479, 484
uprisings and demonstrations, 1905
Revolution 68
Urals
labour camps 202
peasant uprising 161
urban growth 201
urban workers see proletariat (urban workers)
urbanisation 192, 387, 402
under Stalin 200–1
see also towns and urban areas
Urusevskii, Sergei 614
USSR State Council, transitional executive
body (1991) 357
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
in 1985 319–20
in 1991 352–5
constitution 176, 215
contribution to Second World War 224–5
dissolution of (1991) 61–2, 349, 352–7, 516–17,
731
attempt to preserve union (1991) 346–8
resistance to Union Treaty (1991) 347
end of Communist Party power in 328
federal structure of 304, 495–6
foundation (1922) 151, 175–7, 495
as global power 239, 685–700
Gorbachev revolution 322–5
as imperialist 39
international isolation 199, 274
legacy of Stalinism 271, 274
nationality in 176–7, 498, 523–4
and fear of nationalism 540–2
perceived threat of invasion (from 1920s)
220–1
as perverse model of modernisation 30–1,
58
popular discontent and resistance in 53
Russian cultural dominance in 211, 304, 495,
499
as scientific system 549
separatist movements 346
social histories of 58–61
and Soviet Bloc under Khrushchev 283–5,
674
and threat of war (1927) 199, 220
and transfer of power between leaders
289
transformation under Stalin (from 1928)
192–3
war preparations from mid-1930s 221
Western European view of (late 1930s) 221
Western views of communist experiment
12–20
see also economy; foreign policy; Russian
Federation; Soviet identity; Stalinism
838
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