References

Cichock, Mark A. Russian and Eurasian Politics: A Comparative Approach Pearson Education Inc

Danks, Catherine. Russian Politics and Society: An Introduction Pearson Education Inc

Engels, Friedrich and Marx, Karl, "Russia's Pattern of Development", in Feuer, ed.
Lews S. Feuer, Marx, and Engels: Basic Writtings on Politics and Philosophy
(Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books, 1959)

Engels, Friedrich, "The Principles of Communism" in Engels, Friedrich and Marx, Karl
The Communist Manifesto (New York: Modern Reader Paperbacks, 1968) Flags of the Soviet Republics:
http://www.answers.com/topic/flags-of-the-soviet-republics

Flag of the Soviet Union:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/su-.html

Maps of the Soviet Union (courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency):
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth.html

Image of the structure of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:
http://www.rednews.org/clipart/misc/CPSU%20Structure.jpg

Image of Alexander the 2nd:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia

Image of Vladimir Lenin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ilich_Lenin

Image Joseph Stalin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Image of Nikita Khrushchev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev

Image of Leonid Brezhnev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev

Image of Mikhail Gorbachev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, entry on the Soviet Union:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, entry on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union