Russia and the Soviet union are the same thing. So is Soviet Russia and the U.S.S.R. As well the Soviet Union(U.S.S.R) was just Russia and its satellite countries put together under communist rule in...
I was in Russia last summer for 13 days so I can't say I am an expert on life there, but I can tell you what I saw and thought. It seemed to me that it was very controlled and that under the surface...
Stalin successfully turned Russia from a third-world peasant country to an industrial, military juggernaut with a well educated and skilled working class. Under his rule, the Soviet Union gained...