violent crimes in the Soviet Union were less prevalent than in the United States. Soviet Union had low occurrence of drug abuse. Corruption was common; in particular...

war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union and its armed forces. They include acts which were committed by the Red Army...

punishment in the Soviet Union was a legal penalty for most of the country's existence. The claimed legal basis for capital punishment was Article 22 of the Fundamental...

with the National Socialist genocide as a logical, if extreme response to the horrors of Communism led to Wehrmacht crimes in the Soviet Union being...

lit. "inflicting damage", "harming") was a crime specified in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It is often translated as "sabotage";...

Prostitution in the Soviet Union was not officially recognised domestically as a social phenomenon until 1986. Prostitution was regulated in pre-revolutionary...

SSSR) was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. The MVD was established as the successor to the NKVD during reform of the People's...

a collective of various organized crime related elements originating in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Any of the mafia's groups may be referred to as...

political crime in the Soviet Union, where individuals accused of living off the efforts of others or society were prosecuted. The Soviet Union, proclaiming...

of the greatest crimes in military history". Nevertheless, their fate is much less well studied. Although the Soviet Union announced the death penalty for...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dissolved on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme...

A "thief in law" (or thief with code, Russian: вор в зако́не, romanized: vor v zakone) in the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states, and their respective...

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991...

From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy...

collaborators with the Nazi German military was around 1 million. Mass collaboration ensued after the German invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941, Operation...

shootings that have occurred in the Soviet Union. List of mass shootings in Russia Shooting of fellow soldiers [ru] Including the perpetrator including an...

The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the...

Union Demographics of the Soviet Union Soviet people Languages of the Soviet Union Religion in the Soviet Union Crime in the Soviet Union 1989 Soviet...

The Soviet Union introduced forced collectivization (Russian: Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of...

disproportionately high number of crime bosses and still has a majority of the 700 or so still operating in the post-Soviet space and western Georgia (Kutaisi...

After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany. On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact...

The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the...

published in the Izvestia in 1994 described the difference between the situation of crime in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia: Crime was never...

major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen...

The social phenomenon of nostalgia for the era of the Soviet Union (Russian: Ностальгия по СССР, romanized: Nostal'giya po SSSR), can include its politics...

The 101st kilometre (Russian: 101-й километр, sto pervyy kilometr) is a colloquial phrase for restrictions on freedom of movement in the Soviet Union...

Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October...

Mogilevich. Following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, there were large stockpiles of arms left in Ukraine. The rise of the Ukrainian mafia came...

1948, antisemitism reached new heights in the Soviet Union, especially during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign, in which numerous Yiddish-writing poets,...

The Law of the Soviet Union was the law as it developed in the Soviet Union (USSR) following the October Revolution of 1917. Modified versions of the...