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 signs the Soviet–German non-aggression treaty, the Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact, in August 1939, in the company of the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin (right), and the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Two years later, Germany invaded the USSR.', copy:'(Image © Getty Images)'});)
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Former country in northern Asia and Eastern Europe that reverted to independent states in 1991; see Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
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Stalin, Joseph
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Cold War
collective farm
collectivization
five-year plan
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Marx, Karl Heinrich
Marxism
Menshevik
New Economic Policy
Nicholas II
Politburo
purge
Red Army
Ribbentrop–Molotov pact
Romanov dynasty
Russia: history to 1922
Russian civil war
Russian Revolution
Russian revolution, 1905
show trial
socialism, Russian
soviet
Stalin, Joseph
Trotsky, Leon
Trotskyism
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
war communism
World War I
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