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Soviet Union

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This article is about the socialist state. For the ship with this name, see SS Albert Ballin.

"USSR" and "CCCP" redirect here. For other uses, see USSR (disambiguation) and CCCP (disambiguation).

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик

Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Other names ↓ 1922-1991 ↓ Flag Coat of arms Motto

Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!

(Translit.: Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes'!)

English: Workers of the world, unite! Anthem

The Internationale (1922-1944)

Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) CapitalMoscow Language(s) Russian, many others GovernmentFederal socialist republic, Single-party communist state General Secretary - 1922-1953 (first) Joseph Stalin - 1985-1991 (last) Mikhail Gorbachev Premier - 1923-1924 (first) Vladimir Lenin - 1991 (last) Ivan Silayev History - Established December 30, 1922 - Disestablished December 26, 19911 1991 Area - 1991 22,402,200 km² (8,649,538 sq mi) Population - 1991 est. 293,047,571 Density 13.1 /km² (33.9 /sq mi) Currency Ruble (SUR) Internet TLD .su2 Calling code +7Preceded by Succeeded by Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Tuvan People's Republic Kresy Bessarabia Finnish Karelia Estonia3 Latvia3 Lithuania3 Russia Belarus Ukraine Moldova Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Estonia3 Lithuania3 Latvia3 1On December 21, 1991, eleven of the former socialist republics declared in Alma-Ata (with the twelfth republic - Georgia - attending as an observer) that with the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceases to exist.

2Assigned on September 19, 1990, existing onwards.

3The governments of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania view themselves as continuous and unrelated to the respective Soviet republics.

Russia views the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian SSRs as legal constituent republics of the USSR and predecessors of the modern Baltic states.

The Government of the United States and a number of other countries did not recognize the legal inclusion of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the USSR. "Soviet" redirects here. For the term itself, see Soviet (council). For other uses, see Soviet (disambiguation).

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик​ (help·info), tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union,[1] from Советский Союз, Sovetskiy Soyuz. A soviet is a council, the theoretical basis for the socialist society of the USSR.

Emerging from the Russian Empire following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921, the USSR was a union of several Soviet republics, but the synecdoche Russia-after the Russian SFSR, its largest and most populous constituent state-continued to be commonly used throughout the country's existence. The geographic boundaries of the USSR varied with time, but after the last major territorial annexations of the Baltic states, eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and certain other territories during World War II, from 1945 until dissolution, the boundaries approximately corresponded to those of late Imperial Russia, with the notable exclusions of Poland and most of Finland.

As the largest and oldest constitutionally communist state in existence, the Soviet Union became the primary model for future communist nations during the Cold War; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

From 1945 until dissolution in 1991-a period known as the Cold War-the Soviet Union and the United States of America were the two world superpowers that dominated the global agenda of economic policy, foreign affairs, military operations, cultural exchange, scientific advancements including the pioneering of space exploration, and sports (including the Olympic Games and various world championships).

Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR grew to contain 15 constituent or "union republics" by 1956: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR and Uzbek SSR. (From annexation of the Estonian SSR on August 6, 1940 up to the reorganization of the Karelo-Finnish SSR into the Karelian ASSR on July 16, 1956, the count of "union republics" was sixteen.)

The Russian Federation is the successor state to the USSR. Russia is the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.