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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 342. Not illustrated. Chapters: Post-Soviet States, Soviet Union, Russian Civil War, Republics of the Soviet Union, Nkvd, Human Rights in the Soviet Union, Geography of the Soviet Union, Russification, Predictions of Soviet Collapse, Neo-Stalinism, Soviet Central Asia, the Soviet Story, National Delimitation in the Soviet Union, Antisemitism in the Soviet Union, Terrorism by the Soviet Union, Oleg Buryan, Natalia Pankova, Hammer and Sickle, Soviet Central Television, Closed City, Soviet Influence on the Peace Movement, Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union, Soviet Census, Culture of the Soviet Union, Soviet Empire, Ideology of Soviet Communism, Official Names of the Soviet Union, Institute of the Peoples of the North, Khrushchyovka, Languages of the Soviet Union, the Abc of Communism, Victor Lysakov, Soviet Interview Project, Dzyatlava Massacre, Ethnic Russians in Post-Soviet States, Tax on Childlessness, Index of Soviet Union-Related Articles, Yanks for Stalin, Pioneers Palace, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, Decree Time, Subbotnik, Infernus, Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund, Operation Provide Hope, Yestonians, Magdagachi Airport, Tatar Union of the Godless, the Soviet Union Versus Socialism, Children's Palace, Alexander Brodsky, Gang of Eight, Prospekt, Ohr Avner Foundation, Nevozvrashchentsy, Neo-Sovietism, Vladik Dzhabarov. Excerpt: Assigned on September 19, 1990, existing onwards.The governments of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania view themselves as continuous and unrelated to the respective Soviet republics.Russia views the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian SSRs as legal constituent republics of the USSR and predecessors of the modern Baltic states.The Government of the United States and a number of other countries did not recognize the legal inclusion of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the USSR. The Union of So...