The state of the Soviet Union, which existed from 1922 to 1991. Its official name was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The USSR consisted of fifteen republics, including Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The USSR was created after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was the world's first communist state. It was a state ruled centrally by the Communist Party, in which political and economic restructuring was carried out using totalitarian methods, particularly under Stalin, to which millions of people fell victim.
Soviet Union
