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Article: Words in the news.(Soviet Union )(International Space Station )(Brief article)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- March 2, 2009
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Below are some key words used in this issue of Current Events.
Soviet Union (page 4) The Soviet Union, formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), controlled much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991, when it broke up into Russia and 14 other independent republics. The Soviet Union arose out of the Russian Revolution of 1917. From the late 1940s through the 1980s, the Soviet Union was one of two world superpowers--the other being the United States. The ...
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