When did USSR formally disintegrate as a nation?
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
was followed by internal political, economic, and ethnic disintegration within the USSR, which led to the end of the Soviet Union’s existence as a sovereign state.
General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev sought to end the Era of Stagnation by reforming the Soviet political and economic systems. Gorbachev was forced to retire as President and as a member of what remained of the parliament to publicly recognise the Union’s disintegration.
The USSR formally disintegrated on December 26, 1991. This marked the official end of the Soviet Union, with the dissolution of the country into 15 independent republics. The disintegration followed a series of political and economic crises, including the August Coup of 1991, and was officially formalized by the signing of the Belavezha Accords on December 8, 1991, by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.