Soviet Union (Cold War)

Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1960:USSR (r15)
• SNAPSHOT1960
• MATCHEDUSSR
• POLITY TYPEstate

HBM 1960 outline = the post-1945 extent (Kaliningrad, Tuva, Karelia, South Sakhalin, Kurils); dissolved 26 Dec 1991.

Wars of this empire172

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity (any of its time-slices), best-documented first.

• World War II1939–45
  World-changing · 85M dead
• Russian Civil War1918–22
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Barbarossa Operation1941–44
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Holodomor1932–33
  World-changing · 4.0M dead
• Korean War1950–53
  World-changing · 3.0M dead
• Battle of Stalingrad1942–43
  World-changing · 2.0M dead
• Cuban Missile Crisis1962
  World-changing · 0 dead
• Afghan-Soviet War Extended1979–89
  Major conflict · 2.0M dead
• Soviet-Afghan War1979–89
  Major conflict · 2.0M dead
• Spanish Civil War1936–39
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• Battle of Kursk1943
  Major conflict · 400K dead
• Invasion of Poland1939
  Major conflict · 200K dead
• War of Attrition1967–70
  Major conflict
• Continuation War1941–44
  Significant · 400K dead
• Winter War1939–40
  Significant · 250K dead
• Polish-Soviet War1919–21
  Significant · 100K dead
• Polish-Bolshevik War1920–21
  Significant · 100K dead
• Hungarian Revolution of 19561956
  Significant · 2.5K dead
• Berlin Blockade1948–49
  Significant · 100 dead
• Prague Spring Invasion1968
  Significant · 100 dead
• Latvian War of Independence1918–20
  Significant
• Estonian War of Independence1918–20
  Significant
• Lithuanian Wars of Independence1918–20
  Significant
• Soviet–Japanese border conflicts1932–39
  Significant

+ 148 more in the atlas.