Well, a soviet is a council, usually making decisions based on the opinions of the people. The country was made up of republics united, which were socialist in government. United socialist republics...
In 1991, as a result of Gorbachev's reforms anti-communist factions fought the government and republics slipped away. So, in essence, the country was dying. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and...
15 countries had become part of the Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and...