USSR

USSR
The USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a union of many different soviet republics, where the the greater Russia republic exerted de facto dominance over the others. It existed during 1922-1991, formed under the rule of Vladimir Lenin, and dissolved under Ivan Silayev. The union were succeded mainly by the modern day Russian Federation.

Under allmost all of the USSR's existence, the state ideology was Marxist-Leninist one party socialist (a highly communist ideology) except during the last year Before dissolving. The Union allowed only one party and had a highly cenralized totalitarian government and a planned economy. Where the state owned the means of production, and decided who should produce and for, what it should produce and in which amounts.

Notable Grand Secretaries were;
Vladimir Lennin 1922-1924

Joseph Stalin 1922-1953

Involvement under the african-american civil rights movement
As the Cold war and the civil rights movement were ongoing under the same period they related to some degree.

While the US and USSR were involved in regional conflicts under the 1950-1970s as the Korean war, the US supported the liberal-democratic side and also tried to live up that ideal. Therefore the US got heavily critisized for it's treatment of african-americans, something that stood stark against the democratic ideal. This is believed to influence the american government to focus more on to appease the civil right movement and thus increased the support and "spotlight" for/on the civil rights movement.

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