Soviet Union

USSR former northern Eurasian empire 1917221991 stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and in its final years consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet Union formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR for short was a country that was composed of 15 different units known as republics.

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Among these republics was Russia which was the largest most.

. By the end of September Gorbachev no longer had the ability to influence events outside of Moscow. The Soviet Union had its roots in 1917 when the Bolsheviks headed by Vladimir Lenin led the October Revolution which overthrew the provisional government that had replaced the Tsar. Ukraine was the first of 10 republics to secede from the Union between August and December largely out of fear of another coup.

In practice its government and economy were highly centralized until its. The Soviet Union was a single-party state governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. The Soviet Union was a federal state made up of fifteen republics joined together in a theoretically voluntary union.

When the Soviet Union dissolved its 15 former Communist Party-controlled republics gained independence leaving the United States as the worlds last remaining superpower. In turn a series of territorial units made up the republics. The Soviet Union collapsed with dramatic speed in the last quarter of 1991.

The republics also contained jurisdictions intended to protect the interests of national minorities. The USSRs territory stretched from the Baltic states in Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean including the majority of northern Asia and portions of central Asia. Soviet Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

It was nominally a federal union of multiple national republics. The Soviet Union or USSR was made up of 15 countries in Eastern Europe and Asia and lasted from 1922 until its fall in 1991. The Soviet Union officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR was a socialist state that spanned Eurasia during its existence from 1922 to 1991.

The USSR was a major world power during its existence which began with the Russian Revolution of. The Soviet Union officially dissolved on December 25 1991 effectively ending the 40-year-long Cold War with the United States. The Soviet Union was the worlds first Marxist-Communist state.

The capital was Moscow then and now the capital of Russia. The Soviet Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR is a former country which included the modern-day Russian Federation and a number of adjacent states including the Baltic states Latvia Estonia Lithuania Ukraine Kazakhstan and others. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries.

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