The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[o][p] (USSR), [q] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [r] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution …

2 days ago · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific …

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 …

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).

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 …

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 …

Oct 15, 2025 · The Soviet Union was a transcontinental state comprising of 15 republics that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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 …

Discover a carefully selected collection of Slavic and Eastern European books and ephemera—featuring rare and out-of-print Russian and Ukrainian émigré materials. Our …

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 …