what type of government does the former soviet union have?
Communist state
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 Near the end of World War II , the advancing Soviet Red Army pushed out the Nazi German forces from occupied Poland . In February 1945 , the Yalta Conference sanctioned the formation of a provisional government of Poland from a compromise coalition , until postwar elections . Joseph Stalin , the leader of the Soviet Union , manipulated the implementation of that ruling . A practically communist @-@ controlled Provisional Government of National Unity was formed in Warsaw by ignoring the Polish government @-@ in @-@ exile based in London since 1940 . 

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 In the USSR itself , glasnost weakened the bonds that held the Soviet Union together and by February 1990 , with the dissolution of the USSR looming , the Communist Party was forced to surrender its 73 @-@ year @-@ old monopoly on state power . At the same time freedom of press and dissent allowed by glasnost and the festering " nationalities question " increasingly led the Union 's component republics to declare their autonomy from Moscow , with the Baltic states withdrawing from the Union entirely . 

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 In Soviet Russia , a splinter group known as the Living Church gained official state recognition in place of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1922 . In the United States , a group of Living Church clergy led by John Kedrovsky attempted to depose ruling American hierarch Bishop Alexander ( Nemolovsky ) . Bishop Alexander , in addition to the political and ethnic struggles of his diocese , had also to deal with mounting Church debt as a result of the loss of funds from the Russian Church . He was forced to mortgage Church property to pay creditors , and was replaced in 1922 by Archbishop Platon ( Rozhdestvensky ) , who had previously served as archbishop of the diocese from 1907 to 1914 . 

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 After the Armistice on the Western Front , Lenin believed that the breakout of European revolution was imminent . Seeking to promote this , Sovnarkom supported the establishment of Béla Kun 's Communist government in Hungary in March 1919 , followed by the Communist government in Bavaria and various revolutionary socialist uprisings in other parts of Germany , including that of the Spartacus League . During Russia 's Civil War , the Red Army was sent into the newly independent national republics on Russia 's borders to aid Marxists there in establishing soviet systems of government . In Europe , this resulted in the creation of new Communist @-@ led states in Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Belarus , and Ukraine , all of which were officially independent of Russia , while further east it led to the creation of Communist governments in Georgia , and then in Outer Mongolia . Various senior Bolsheviks wanted these absorbed into the Russian state ; Lenin insisted that national sensibilities should be respected , but reassured them that these nations ' new Communist Party administrations were de facto regional branches of Moscow 's government . 

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 The Soviet Union sought to dominate the internal affairs of countries that bordered it . During the war , Stalin had created special training centers for communists from different countries so that they could set up secret police forces loyal to Moscow as soon as the Red Army took control . Soviet agents took control of the media , especially radio ; they quickly harassed and then banned all independent civic institutions , from youth groups to schools , churches and rival political parties . Stalin also sought continued peace with Britain and the United States , hoping to focus on internal reconstruction and economic growth . 
