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Treaties of the Soviet Union

  • Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual AssistanceThe Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance was signed in Paris on the 2nd of May 1935, at a moment when Nazi Germany's threat was growing louder by the…
  • Anglo-Soviet AgreementOn the 12th of July 1941, two men sat down in Moscow to sign a document that would reshape the war in Europe. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Ambassador to…
  • Covenant of the League of NationsThe London-based Bryce Group began making proposals for a possible League of Nations even before World War I ended. Their ideas were adopted by the British…
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsOn the 16th of December 1966, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a treaty that promised something startling. It said that everyone, everywhere, has…
  • Moscow Peace TreatyThe Winter War began on the 30th of November 1939 with the Soviet invasion of Finland. This conflict started when Moscow decided to push its borders westward…
  • Montreal ProtocolThe Montreal Protocol carries a distinction no other treaty in United Nations history holds: it is the only international agreement ever ratified by all 198…
  • Moscow ArmisticeFinnish and Soviet officers gathered in Moscow on the 5th of September 1944 to begin talks that would reshape a nation. The meeting took place under tense…
  • Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression PactNanjing hosted the signing of the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact on the 21st of August 1937. This document emerged between the Republic of China and the…
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsThe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 16th of December 1966, yet it would not…
  • Convention on Certain Conventional WeaponsThe United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons concluded its negotiations in Geneva on the 10th of October 1980.
  • Soviet–Japanese Neutrality PactOn the 13th of April 1941, the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow. This agreement arrived two years after the…
  • Belovezha AccordsThe Belovezha Accords were signed on the 8th of December 1991, in a state dacha near Viskuli, deep inside the ancient forest of Belovezhskaya Pushcha in…
  • Outer Space TreatyThe Outer Space Treaty was opened for signature on the 27th of January 1967, with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union all signing on…
  • Potsdam AgreementThe Potsdam Agreement was signed on the 1st of August 1945, at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, as the guns fell silent across Europe but war still raged in…
  • Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsThe Non-Proliferation Treaty, known almost universally as the NPT, opened for signature in 1968 with a single overriding fear driving its creation: that…
  • Molotov–Ribbentrop PactThe Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in Moscow on the 24th of August 1939, and within a week Germany had invaded Poland.
  • Antarctic Treaty SystemThe Antarctic Treaty System governs an entire continent where no human being has ever been born. On the 1st of December 1959, twelve nations signed an…
  • Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyThe Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 released a yield of 15 megatons, more than double the expected power. Radioactive particles spread over…