The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a Communist single-party state successor to the Russian Empire and the world's first socialist superstate.
Formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 when the Supreme Soviet voted to dissolve the union the day after Gorbachev's resignation on 25 December, with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and twelve other successor states having declared independence via the Belavezha Accords on 8 December and the Alma-Ata Protocol on 21 December.
Covers both the Soviet period and the transition to the Russian Federation in a single authoritative volume.
Archive-based history tracing the USSR from 1917 to its collapse — a full-span account of the Soviet state.
Classic eyewitness reportage of the October Revolution that founded the Soviet state.
Revolution and civil war sweeping away one Russia and building another.
The devil loose in Stalin’s Moscow — the Soviet era’s great satire.
The definitive single-volume history of Europe after 1945 — the era that made this state’s present form.