The Russian Empire had long been ruled by the Romanov Family (for 300 years) -- and the Russian people were long searching for relief. A young revolutionary -- Vladmir Lenin -- would study and begin...
At the fall of the Soviet Union, there were 15 republics that made up the USSR. While constitutionally each republic had some autonomy and were a union with the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist...
No, the Soviet Union isn't Russia. The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. The Russian Federation was formed on December 25, 1991. Besides Russia, it consisted of other 14 republics, Armenia,...
No, it is not. Russia was one part of the Soviet Union when the USSR was first formed in 1922. The other parts were Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus Federation. After that the new Soviet Union...