Who's the Soviet Union?

Question

Is it like the Russians?

Answer 1

It doesn't exist anymore ... these links will help.

Answer 2

The Russians and most of the countries around Russia were called the Soviet Union.

Answer 3

Russia underwent a revolution in 1917, and a civil war in which Communists overtook the country in 1922. Once the country became communist, they renamed it the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR or the Soviet Union. Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР) in Russian.

In 1989, the pressure from the Cold War, economic failures from trying to compete with the United States and a forward thinking leader in Gorbachev led Russia close to what we see it as today. Under Gorbachev, the Wall surrounding East Berlin fell, citizens from both sides were once again able to visit each other where as before they were forbidden by the "Iron Curtian" that surrounded most of Eastern Europe due to Soviet Isolationism. A main driving factor to the reasons USSR kept so many "Satelite States" surrounding Russia itself was the fact that it was trying to protect itself from other European wars. Hitler was the last in a long line of invaders and Russia was intent to keep it from happening again. USSR grew and from 1956 to 1991 politically contained 15 constituent or union republics — Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR — joined in a strongly centralized federal union. After the USSR's collapse, all 15 SSRs became independent countries. The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, and the successor states are a collection of 15 countries commonly dubbed, the former Soviet Union. Eleven of these states are aligned through a loose confederation known as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Also under Soviet control were several other Eastern European countires, many that are, or were, considered "Poor" by Western Standards mostly due to the economic failures of the Soviet Union. It should be noted, all of the States that formed the Union were not members by choice, they were forced under Soviet military domination. Although the CIS formed, they stayed together more for economic reasons than for any other as none of them could have survived as seperate states at the time the Soviet Union disolved.

The people were always Russians, Soviet was more like a government state of control.

Answer 4

Soviet Union is an outdated term used to cover what is now several Russian countries including the Ukraine, Siberia, and other slavic nations..USSR=Union of Soviet Socialist Republic

Answer 5

The Soviet Union, or U.S.S.R, or C.C.C.P, was the group of communist states ruled by the likes of Gorbechev and Stalin. They grew in the aftermath of WWII and were the opponent to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet Union died due to mostly economic failures around 1989-1991. Although it was mostly Russia, there are several satellite states that emerged from the dissembling, such as Kazachstan and Georgia.

Answer 6

That's close. The Soviet Union, otherwise known as the United Soviet Socialist Republics (the U.S.S.R.,) was a confederation of states that were united as a single country. In addition to Russia, it included the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belorussia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tadjikistan, Uzbekhistan, and Turkhmenistan. They were communist. When the central government collapsed, the separate states tried to stay united, but eventually went their separate ways.

Answer 7

Before its collapse in 1990 The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist States was comprised of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldavia, Turkmenistan, and Georgia (not the one in the southern U.S.) I may have forgotten a few, you should double check me.

Answer 8

Soviet Union is not a WHO, it's a WHAT. Soviet Union is Russia.♥

Answer 9

No such thing anymore. Was dissolved in 1989. The existing governmental body is called the Federation, and includes Russia, Georgia, the Ukraine and other former Soviet countries.

Answer 10

Like totally! It was like called Russia then they changed it to like the Soviet Union and like yeah now it is called Russia again.

Answer 11

russia is frequently described as f.s.u. meaning former soviet union