Soviet Union and the United Nations

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Nations membership

Membership	Former full member
Dates	24 October 1945 (1945-10-24) – 24 December 1991 (1991-12-24)
UNSC seat	Permanent
Permanent Representative	Andrei Gromyko (1946–48) Yakov Malik (1948–52) Valerian Zorin (1952–53) Andrey Vyshinsky (1953–54) Arkady Sobolev (1955–60) Valerian Zorin (1960–63) Nikolai Fedorenko (1963–68) Yakov Malik (1968–76) Oleg Troyanovsky (1976–86) Yuri Dubinin (1986) Alexander Belonogov (1986–90) Yuli Vorontsov (1990–91)

Society

Economy
Agriculture Consumer goods Five-Year Plan Kosygin reform New Economic Policy Science and technology Era of Stagnation Material balance planning Transport War communism
Culture
Demographics Education Family Phraseology Religion
Repression
Censorship Censorship of images Great Purge Gulag system Collectivization Human rights Ideological repression Political abuse of psychiatry Political repression Population transfer Propaganda Suppressed research Red Terror Soviet Empire

The Soviet Union was a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent members of the Security Council. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its UN seat was transferred to the Russian Federation, the continuator state of the USSR (see Succession, continuity and legacy of the Soviet Union).