Was the Soviet Union really necessary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11601709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Swoboda |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 761-784 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soviet Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-5859 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09668139208412046 |
| OpenAlex | W2081816828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
THE CREATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS Is a New Year Present to the Proletariat of the World', enthused the Izvestiya front-page banner headline on New Year's Eve, 1922. The peoples of the world showed no eagerness to accept the gift and join the USSR, as they were then indeed expected to do, so as ultimately to extend it to a planetary Soviet Union. Although the USSR is no more, Article 14 of the 8 December 1991 Minsk Accord still holds open the door to the CIS, the USSR's new incarnation, 'not only to all states members of the former USSR but also to other states which share the aims and principles of this Accord'. Was the USSR really necessary? Why and how was it created? All these years, certain crucial facts have been concealed, and it is remarkable that even today, with the evidence having begun to surface, the CIS leaders still fail to acknowledge the truth, or, at best, are ignorant of it. It is possible to examine the question of the Soviet Union's legitimacy while
Art · Banner · Cliché · Economic history · Headline · Legitimacy · Literature · Political economy · Political science · Proletariat · Sociology · Soviet union · History · Law · Philosophy · Russia and Soviet political economy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 1994 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |