Commonwealth of Independent States

LC control no.	n 92019874
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Commonwealth of Independent States *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	CEI CIS Communauté des Etats indépendants Commonwealth States Comunità di Stati indipendenti Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten GUS (Commonwealth of Independent States) Ḥever ha-ʻAmim Ḥever ha-Medinot ha-ʻAtsmaʼiyot Itsenäisten valtioiden yhteisö IVY (Organization) Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union NIS SND SNG Sodruzhestvo nezavisimykh gosudarstv Spivdruz︠h︡nistʹ nezalez︠h︡nykh derz︠h︡av Strany Sodruzhestva Tongnip Kukka Yŏnhap Wspólnota Niepodległych Państw ZND Zajednica nezavisnih država Koinopoliteia Anexartētōn Kratōn
Special note	To be treated as an organization, NOT A JURISDICTION, with its subordinate bodies established in English--per LC CPSO Do not confuse the Commonwealth of Independent States with the heading Former Soviet republics, WHICH IS TO BE TREATED AS A SUBJECT HEADING ONLY (sh92-2682)
Found in	Facts on file, Jan. 23, 1992: p. 1067 (Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)); Dec. 31, 1991: p. 969 (the Soviet Union officially disbanded Dec. 25, replaced by a Commonwealth of Independent States made up of 11 of the 12 former Soviet constituent republics; the commonwealth is not in itself a state but an alliance of fully independent states) Info. fr. BGN, Jan. 22, 1992 (Commonwealth of Indepependent States treated by the Dept. of State as an organization similar to EEC, etc.) Novoe russkoe slovo, 23 i︠a︡n. 1992: t.p. (Sodruzhestva nezavisimykh gosudarstv) Schrettl, W. Konjunkturanalyse für die Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten unter den Bedingungen von Depression und Shocktherapie, 1991. Clement, H. Die Energiewirtschaft der GUS, 1992: t.p. (GUS) p. 1 (GUS=former Soviet Union) Prodolzhitelʹnostʹ prozhivanii︠a︡ naselenii︠a︡ SSSR v meste protoi︠a︡nnogo zhitelʹstva, 1993: CIP t.p. (Statisticheskiĭ komitet Sodruzhestva nezavisimykh gosudarstv) pref. (Statisticheskiĭ komitet SNG; CIS Committee on Statistics) La Fin de l'URSS, 1992: p. 4 of cover (Communauté des Etats indépendants (CEI)) Social development of the Commonwealth States, 1993: CIP t.p. (Commonwealth States; Commonwealth of Independent States) Seize the day!1993: p. 1, etc (Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union; NIS) Iniziative comunitarie nell'Europa centro-orientale e nella CSI, c1993: p. 9 (Comunità di Stati indipendenti) Hebeṭim shel zehut ṿe-śafah bi-ḳeliṭat ʻole Ḥever ha-Medinot ha-ʻAtsmaʼiyot, 1994. Aktualʹnai︠a︡ politicheskai︠a︡ situat︠s︡ii︠a︡ v Respublike Moldavii︠a︡, 1998: t.p. (Strany Sodruzhestva) Histaglut ʻolim me-Ḥever ha-ʻAmim la-ḳibuts ṿela-arets, 1995. Rosii︠a︡, i︠a︡ku my--, between 1995 and 1997: t.p. (Spivdruz︠h︡nosti nezalez︠h︡nykh derz︠h︡av) p. 9, etc. (SND) Zajednica nezavisnih država (ZND), 1998. Itsenäisten valtioiden yhteisön (IVY) sotilaallinen integraatio, 1998. Ho Hellēnismos stis paraeuxeinies chōres, c2002: t.p. (Koinopoliteia Anexartētōn Kratōn) Tongnip Kukka Yŏnhap (CIS) Koryŏin sahoe yŏnʼgu, 2003: t.p. (Tongnip Kukka Yŏnhap [in Kor.]; CIS) Federacja Rosyjska--Wspólnota Niepodległych Państw, 2011.
Not found in	BGN, 04-29-92 (Soviet Union has ceased to exist; nothing has replaced it; 15 former Soviet republics are now independent)
Invalid LCCN	n 89209655