Topic summary
History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)
Leonid Brezhnev speaking at 18th Komsomol Congress opening (25 April 1978)
Vietnam War
30 September Movement
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
Six-Day War
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Troubles
Congo Crisis
1973 Chilean coup d'état
Détente
Angolan Civil War
Fall of Saigon
Dirty War
Ogaden War
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
Soviet–Afghan War
1980 Summer Olympics
1981 Polish hunger demonstrations
Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev
862–1240: Ancient Rus'
1240–1547: Appanage Russia
1547–1917: Tsarist Russia
1917–1922: Russian Revolution
1922–1991: Soviet Russia
- NEP • Cultural revolution • Korenization • Stalinism • Collectivization • Industrialization • Gulag • Great Purge • Great Patriotic War • Cold War • Warsaw Pact • Comecon • Crimea
transfer • Era of Stagnation • Afghan War • Perestroika • Chernobyl disaster • Karabakh
War • Parade of sovereignties (War of Laws)
1991–present: Post-Soviet Russia
- August Coup • Belavezha Accords • Alma-Ata
Protocol • USSR dissolution • CIS • "Near
abroad" • Constitutional crisis • Privatization • CSTO • Chechen wars (1st • 2nd) • Oligarchy • Putinism • Five-Days War • Presidential terms
amendments • Eurasian Economic Union • Annexation of Crimea • War in Donbas • 2020 amendments • Invasion of Ukraine (Prelude • Mass emigration • Debt default • Sanctions • Mobilization • 2022 annexation)