The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), sometimes simply but incorrectly refered to as Communist Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1945. The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1945. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly-centralized government and economy.
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| - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Central Victory)
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| - The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), sometimes simply but incorrectly refered to as Communist Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1945. The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1945. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly-centralized government and economy.
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| - Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD. After Yezhov was executed, he was edited out of the image.
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| conventional long name
| - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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| - Far Eastern Republic
- Russian Republic
- Siberian Republic
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| - Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!
- ("Workers of the world, unite!")
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| - Flag of Russian SFSR .svg
- Flag of Transcaucasian SFSR.svg
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| - Flag of Russia.svg
- Flag of the Far Eastern Republic.svg
- Flag of Ural Republic.svg
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| image map
| - CV Soviet Union orthographic map.png
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| - The Commissar Vanishes 2.jpg
- Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, with Nikolai Yezhov.jpg
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| - Союз Советских Социалистических Республик
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| image coat
| - USSR COA six republics.svg
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| - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
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| - The Soviet Union before World War II
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| - Flag of the Soviet Union .svg
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| - 1922(xsd:integer)
- 1941(xsd:integer)
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| - The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), sometimes simply but incorrectly refered to as Communist Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1945. The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1945. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly-centralized government and economy. The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused the downfall of the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a struggle for power between the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the anti-communist White movement. In December 1922, the Bolsheviks won the civil war, and the Soviet Union was formed. Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Joseph Stalin took power, leading the USSR through a large-scale industrialization program. Stalin established a planned economy and suppressed political opposition to him and the Communist party. The Soviet Union made aggressive territorial gains when Georgia, Azerbaijan, and the Northern Caucasus, threatening war if they were not met. Armenia was later annexed in 1939. Stalin made a pacts with France and Britain, following which he invaded Belarus and Ukraine in September 1939, starting World War II in Europe. The Soviet Union conquered half of Europe by 1940, and nearly defeated its major foe: Germany. Communist regimes were established in conquered areas, who would engage the Soviet enemies but mostly served as occupation authorities. Gulags, established as early as 1930, were used to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime. The number of camps quadrupled between 1939 and 1942, as slave-laborers from across Europe, Jews, political prisoners, criminals, and others were imprisoned. The tide turned after the failure of the Vistula–Oder Offensive—the invasion of Germany—in 1941. The Germans counter-attacked in a series of huge, fierce battles that overwhelmed the Soviets. The Soviet Union was in danger of being overrun in 1945 by majority of the Axis from the west and later by Japan from the east. The victorious Axis initiated a policy of decommunization and put the Soviet leadership on trial for war crimes at the Petrograd Trials.
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