The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, which saw the Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian Provisional Government that formed earlier that ...
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union or Russia was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time... Wikipedia
Founded: December 30, 1922
Area: 8.65 million mi²
Organization: League of Nations
military conflict: Spanish Civil War, The Cold War
Government: Dictatorship, Totalitarianism, Socialist state, and more
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Planned by hard-line Communists, the coup diminished Gorbachev's power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian ...