The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. [u] An overall successor to the Russian Empire ...

2023年11月28日 · The political and economic landscape of Uzbekistan underwent significant changes after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The country transitioned into an independent state, with Tashkent retaining its status as the capital. Post-independence, Uzbekistan has sought to preserve its cultural heritage while embracing economic reforms and ...

2025年1月30日 · During the period of its existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was by area the world’s largest country. It was also one of the most diverse, with more than 100 distinct nationalities living within its borders.The majority of the population, however, was made up of East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians); these groups together made up more than two-thirds of the total ...

2022年3月8日 · Photos: 7 Decades of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, founded in 1922 on Marxist‑socialist principles, became one of the biggest and most powerful nations in the world—before its fall and ...

2023年2月14日 · Former Soviet Union (USSR) Countries. The Soviet Union (or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - USSR) was a giant single-party communist state formed by the federal union of 15 national republics. It existed from 1922 to 1991. This giant transcontinental state stretched across Asia and Eastern Europe from the Pacific Ocean coast in the east to the Baltic and Black seas in the west.

The Soviet Union played a crucial role in the Allied victory in World War II, but at a tremendous human cost, ... American historian J. Arch Getty concludes: "Many who lauded Stalin's Soviet Union as the most democratic country on earth lived to regret their words. After all, the Soviet Constitution of 1936 was adopted on the eve of the Great ...

2019年8月2日 · The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union) consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries. The USSR's territory stretched from the Baltic states in Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, including the majority of northern Asia and portions of central Asia.

2017年9月1日 · The Soviet Union, or U.S.S.R., was made up of 15 countries in Eastern Europe and Asia and lasted from 1922 until its fall in 1991. The Soviet Union was the world’s first Marxist‑Communist ...

The Soviet Union, officially Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as USSR, [3] was the Russian state after the end of Tsarist Period and the world's first single-party Marxist–Leninist state from 1922 until 1991. It was the first country to declare itself socialist and build towards a communist society. It was a union of 14 Soviet socialist republics and one Soviet Federative ...

Soviet Union Countries 2024 The Soviet Union was a federal socialist state that existed from 1922 to 1991, consisting of 15 socialist republics. The Soviet Union originated in the 1917 Russian Revolution, when radical leftist revolutionaries, the Bolsheviks, overthrew Czar Nicholas II and the centuries-old Romanov monarchy and a civil war followed.