Example sentences of "part [prep] the soviet " in BNC.

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1 In the east , the ethnic Romanian area of Bessarbia , which forms part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia , has been a source of tension since its ‘ misappropriation ’ by the Soviet Union in May 1940 .
2 But that will not settle the trickiest question : whether those republics which are determined not to be part of the Soviet Union will be allowed their independence , or whether they will be kept in by force .
3 This westernmost part of the Soviet Union used to draw little attention , except from spies .
4 They discourage any ideas on the part of the Soviet Union that it could risk a nuclear attack on Europe without involving the United States .
5 With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning .
6 It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course .
7 Under Lenin and Stalin , many churches in Russia were demolished as part of the Soviet state 's anti-religious campaigns .
8 It has to be said that the countries in this bit of the world , which were previously part of the Soviet Union , do not look a promising market .
9 Caucasian rugs were produced in a region of about 160,000 square miles , stretching from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east , in what is now the most south-westerly part of the Soviet Union .
10 A contemporary Shirvan rug , for example ( pl. 24 ) , may have been made in the Shirvan area — now part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan — but it could just as easily have come from any of the Soviet weaving centres producing Caucasian-style rugs .
11 The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ .
12 As in the case of Soviet proposals for zones of peace elsewhere they contributed , however , to the creation of inhospitable local conditions for the Western military presence and formed part of the Soviet policy of military denial .
13 Although both the USSR and Somalia downplayed the Soviet presence in Berbera , there existed at least a long-range communications station for submarines at Berbera , which formed part of the Soviet nuclear strategic infrastructure .
14 The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary .
15 It proclaimed that June 28 , the anniversary of Bessarabia 's " reunification " in 1940 with the tiny Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( at that time part of the Soviet Ukraine ) , would no longer be a public holiday .
16 In Abkhazia , the Abkhaz population which favoured seceding from Georgia and remaining part of the Soviet Union boycotted the referendum , but the fact that the Abkhaz were a minority in their own autonomous republic was reflected in the 60 per cent turnout of voters , of whom 97.65 per cent voted " yes " .
17 As part of the Soviet government 's anti-crisis programme approved in April [ see p. 38129 ] , Gorbachev on May 13 issue a decree establishing a " special regime " to stabilize key economic sectors .
18 For the first time the survey , which covered 1,160,000 sq km ( i.e. two-thirds of the entire forest area in Europe ) included data on forest damage in the western part of the Soviet Union ( i.e. Byelorussia , the Kaliningrad region and Ukraine ) in addition to Estonia and Lithuania which had been included in earlier years .
19 For the first time representatives from the Soviet Union 's republics ( the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Armenia , Azerbaidjan , Georgia , the Russian Federation and Ukraine ) formed part of the Soviet delegation to the conference of Black Sea countries , which took place on July 11-12 near Moscow .
20 The Dnestr region , however , in the east of Moldava , with a population of 700,000 mainly Russian speakers , which had been a part of Ukraine before it was incorporated into the Moldavan territory annexed by Stalin from Romania in 1940 , declared its wish to remain part of the Soviet Union .
21 The Latvian Communist Party , which had voted in April 1990 to remain part of the Soviet CP , was banned from Aug. 23 , 1991 , and its hardline chairman , Alfred Rubiks , arrested [ see p. 38373 ] .
22 At the meeting , convened to discuss closer ties , the ministers were reported to have agreed to extend membership as rapidly as possible to other states of eastern Europe ( Bulgaria had been admitted in May — see p. 38930 — while Hungary had joined in 1990 and Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1991 ) and to applicant countries which were formerly part of the Soviet Union .
23 One sign of its international impact has been a new willingness on the part of the Soviet Union , not traditionally regarded as an environmentally sensitive nation , to follow whatever lead the British set in getting rid of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) .
24 Current sulphur levels represent timber losses of 48 million cubic metres for western Europe , 35 million cubic metres for eastern Europe and 35 million cubic metres for the European part of the Soviet Union .
25 This part of the Soviet Union , has always been self-sufficient , now people talk of hunger , even malnutrition .
26 Although , as has been argued already , the significance of the 1934 Congress is to be located in its general guiding principles rather than in specific theories , it is nonetheless worthwhile examining briefly the substance of the 1934 debate not only because it sets out the agenda for a detailed discussion of socialist realism , but also because Nizan 's second novel , Le Cheval de Troie , was produced , for the most part in the Soviet Union during 1934 in the shadow of the Congress itself .
27 Two regional blocs have emerged : Israel supported by the United States , and against it certain Arab states supported in part by the Soviet Union .
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