The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[u] (USSR), [v] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [w] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in …

May 6, 2025 · The USSR was a large communist country made up of Russia and 14 other countries. The USSR was founded in 1922 and dissolved in 1991 after Gorbachev's reforms …

Dec 19, 2025 · At its greatest extent, between 1946 and 1991 (the figures and descriptions given below refer to this period), the U.S.S.R. covered some 8,650,000 square miles (22,400,000 …

Sep 1, 2017 · A 1922 treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia (modern Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Founded after the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War, the USSR combined revolutionary ideals with centralised rule under the Communist Party.

Efforts to develop a capitalist economy while creating a new socialist government system failed. What resulted was a command economic system with an increasingly totalitarian political …

The USSR was one of the most advanced industrial states during its existence. It had the world's second-largest economy and largest standing military. As a nuclear state, it wielded the …

Dec 21, 2025 · A human-centred chronicle of Soviet history, ideology, and power, tracing Russia’s rise, disillusionment, and collapse from Gagarin to Gorbachev.

Chapter 8 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution is titled as the "Soviet Union is a union state". Article 70 stated that the union was founded on the principles of "socialist federalism" as a result of the …

Dec 14, 2025 · They resulted in a series of factional fights that constituted the political history of the U.S.S.R. over the next six years. The party was in a most anomalous position.