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Sovereignty and recognition in colonial and decolonizing international law
Sovereignty and recognition in colonial and decolonizing international law is a historical critique arguing that sovereignty doctrine was forged in the colonial confrontation between European and non-European worlds.
Sovetakan Grakanutyun
Sovetakan Grakanutyun (Սովետական գրականություն, "Soviet Literature") was an Armenian-language literary journal published in Yerevan from 1934 as the organ of the Writers' Union of Armenia.
Sovetish Heymland
Sovetish Heymland was a Yiddish-language literary journal published in Moscow by the Soviet Writers' Union from 1961 to 1991, the only Jewish magazine in the postwar USSR.
Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship
The Sovetsky Soyuz class (Советский Союз, Soviet Union) was a class of Soviet battleships of the late 1930s, of which four were laid down and none completed.
Soviet (сове́т) (council)
Soviet (сове́т, "council"): an elected council of workers, soldiers, or peasants, first formed in the 1905 Russian revolution; basis of Bolshevik power in 1917, inspiration of council communism (Pannekoek, Gorter, Korsch), and later a subordinate electoral institution of the USSR.
Soviet adventure novel
The Soviet adventure novel (приключенческий роман) is popular fiction produced in the Soviet Union from the early 1920s, blending fast adventure plots with revolutionary ideology.
Soviet Air Defence Forces
The Soviet Air Defence Forces, or Voyska PVO, were a separate armed service defending the USSR against air attack from 1948 until merging into the Russian Air Force in 1998.
Soviet Air Forces (Военно-воздушные силы СССР)
The Soviet Air Forces (VVS, Военно-воздушные силы СССР) were the USSR's air arm from 1918 to 1991, organized into 18 air armies with over 15,000 aircraft in 1945, about 10,000 fixed-wing aircraft plus 4,000 helicopters in 1985, and dissolving into successor states' air forces after 1991.
Soviet Air Forces in the Korean War
The Soviet Air Forces in the Korean War was the covert deployment of Soviet MiG-15 fighters against United Nations air forces from November 1950 to July 1953.
Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk
Ulyanovsk (Ульяновск) was to have been the Soviet Navy's first true aircraft carrier, laid down in 1988 and scrapped at 20 percent complete in 1992.
Soviet and Russian locomotive classification
Soviet and Russian locomotive classification is a Cyrillic letter-and-digit system in which a locomotive's designation encodes its traction type, transmission, duty, and builder, applied across the whole USSR.
Soviet and Russian sounding rockets
Soviet and Russian sounding rockets are suborbital research vehicles, from R-1 flights with dogs in 1950-1951 to the Vertikal program and thousands of meteorological rocket launches.
Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
The Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (Присоединение Бессарабии и Северной Буковины к СССР) transferred two Romanian provinces to the USSR in June and July 1940.
Soviet annexation of East Prussia
The Soviet annexation of East Prussia incorporated the province's northern third, including Königsberg, into the Soviet Union after 1945; the southern two thirds passed to Poland.
Soviet annexation of the Baltic states
The Soviet annexation of the Baltic states (Присоединение Прибалтики к СССР) was the 1940 incorporation of independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the Soviet Union through ultimatums, Red Army entry, and manipulated elections.
Soviet annexation of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus
The Soviet annexation of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus was the 1939 incorporation of eastern Polish provinces into the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet republics after staged elections.
Soviet anti-religious campaigns in Armenia and Georgia
The Soviet anti-religious campaigns in Armenia and Georgia, beginning with Sovietization in 1920 and Georgia's annexation in 1921, confiscated church property, closed places of worship, and persecuted clergy of all faiths through the late 1930s.
Soviet architectural modernism
Soviet architectural modernism (Soviet modernism, 1955–1991): the modernist current in late Soviet architecture launched by the 4 November 1955 anti-excess decree, known for prefabricated mass housing, republic-level regional variants, and contested post-Soviet heritage.
Soviet Armed Forces
Soviet Armed Forces (Вооружённые Силы СССР), the USSR's military from the 1918 Red Army founding to 1991; five services including Strategic Rocket Forces; fought in Afghanistan 1979–1989; dissolved with the USSR in 1991.
Soviet Army (Советская армия)
Soviet Army (Советская армия): land forces of the USSR, 1946-1991, renamed from the Red Army in 1946. Organized in 16 military districts, conscript-based, core of Warsaw Pact strength against NATO; invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
Soviet atomic bomb project
The Soviet atomic bomb project, also called the Soviet nuclear program, was the secret USSR effort to develop nuclear weapons, led by Igor Kurchatov and Lavrentiy Beria.
Soviet atrocities committed against prisoners of war during World War II
Soviet atrocities against POWs in World War II: the NKVD Katyn massacre of nearly 22,000 Poles (March 1940 Politburo decision), harsh captivity of German and other Axis prisoners, and Gulag-bound filtration of returning Soviet POWs.
Soviet brainrot
Soviet brainrot: an internet meme genre pairing Soviet aesthetics with absurd content, from Soyuzmultfilm character edits (2021–2024) to the January 2026 AI mockumentary wave with Cheremsha, Brdyshch, and Syomga.
Soviet calendar
The Soviet calendar, also called the Soviet revolutionary calendar, refers to Soviet reforms of 1918 to 1940: the Gregorian adoption and five- and six-day work weeks.
Soviet Central Television (Центральное телевидение СССР)
Soviet Central Television (Центральное телевидение СССР) was the state television broadcaster of the Soviet Union, producing and transmitting national programs from Moscow from 1957 to 1991.
Soviet children's literature
Soviet children's literature (советская детская литература) is the body of writing for children produced in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991, where Chukovsky and Marshak built a state publishing tradition.
Soviet Civil Administration in Korea
The Soviet Civil Administration in Korea (소련군정) was the Soviet military's occupation government over northern Korea from August 1945 to the end of 1948, north of the 38th parallel.
Soviet collectivization in the Caucasus
Soviet collectivization in the Caucasus was the campaign begun in 1929 to merge individual farms into kolkhozes, met by resistance so violent Moscow suspended it in several Muslim districts.
Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina (Червона Україна)
Chervona Ukraina (Червона Україна) was a Soviet cruiser sunk by German dive-bombers at Sevastopol on 12 November 1941, the only Soviet cruiser lost in the war.
Soviet deportations from the Caucasus
The Soviet deportations from the Caucasus were the removal of about a million people, whole ethnic groups like the Chechens and Ingush, to Central Asia in 1943 and 1944.