The Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991 after a failed hardline coup that August against Mikhail Gorbachev accelerated the independence movements of its constituent republics. Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus founded the Commonwealth of Independent States earlier that December, and Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president on 25 December 1991, with the Supreme Soviet formally dissolving the union the next day, ending 74 years of Communist Party rule that had begun with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the HistorianCollapse of the Soviet Union milestone summary
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
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On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
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The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991.
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The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991.
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The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991.
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