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USSR was established on this day in 1922
30 December 2007 | 01:15
USSR was established on this day in 1922. In post-revolutionary
Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established,
comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the
Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian,
Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics). Also known as the Soviet Union,
the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and
the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.
During the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent three-year
Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin dominated
the soviet forces, a coalition of workers’ and soldiers’ committees
that called for the establishment of a socialist state in the former
Russian Empire. In the USSR, all levels of government were controlled
by the Communist Party, and the party’s politburo, with its
increasingly powerful general secretary, effectively ruled the
country. Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and
agricultural land was divided into state-run collective farms.
In the decades after it was established, the Russian-dominated Soviet
Union grew into one of the world’s most powerful and influential
states and eventually encompassed 15 republics–Russia, Ukraine,
Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and
Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following the
collapse of its communist government.