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  1. Soviet Union - Wikipedia

    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 in 1991.

  2. Soviet Union | History, Leaders, Flag, Map, & Anthem | Britannica

    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 Ocean and, in its final …

  3. What Was the USSR and Which Countries Were in It? - ThoughtCo

    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 failed.

  4. Soviet Union - Countries, Cold War & Collapse | HISTORY

    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).

  5. Soviet Union - Wikiwand

    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 largest …

  6. Soviet Union - New World Encyclopedia

    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 system. During …

  7. Soviet Union – DW

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

  8. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

    Dec 29, 2022 · The USSR, which later expanded to include Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, left the republics with their own governments and national languages, but all subordinate to Moscow.

  9. Republics of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

    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 free self …

  10. Soviet Union - Revolution, Communism, USSR | Britannica

    2 days ago · Soviet Union - Revolution, Communism, USSR: Sometime in the middle of the 19th century, Russia entered a phase of internal crisis that in 1917 would culminate in revolution. Its …