Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve other countries. A diverse multinational state, it was organized as a federal union of national republics, with the largest and most populous being the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR). The world's flagship communist state, it was governed by the Communist Party under Marxism–Leninism, through soviet councils.
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Rulers
- Rus and Russia
- Vladimir Lenin 1917 – 1924, Joseph Stalin 1924 – 1953, Nikita Khrushchev 1953 – 1964, Leonid Brezhnev 1964 – 1982, Yuri Andropov 1982 – 1984, Konstantin Chernenko 1984 – 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev 1985 – 1991, Boris Yeltsin 1991 – 1999
Events on its territory
- 1922 Formation of the USSR
- 1925 Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
- 1928–1932 First Five-Year Plan: Soviet industrialisation
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union
- 1932–1933 Soviet famine of 1930–1933
- 1936–1938 Great Purge
- 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad
- 1941 German invasion of the USSR
- 1941–1942 Battle of Moscow
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day
- 1945 Yalta Conference
- 1947–1991 Cold War
- 1949 First Soviet atomic bomb test
- 1952 European bison return to the wild
- 1953 Death of Stalin
- 1954 Obninsk, the first grid-connected nuclear power plant
- 1956 Secret Speech and the Khrushchev thaw
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite
- 1961 Gagarin's flight
- 1963 Valentina Tereshkova's spaceflight
- 1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War
- 1984 Creation of Tetris
- 1985–1991 Perestroika
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989
- 1989 Baltic Way
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 1991 1991 Soviet coup attempt