I know this is the same country, but were different names used under communist rule, or at different times etc?
2007-02-20 21:34:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Russia
soviet union and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are the same in russian it was CCCP..
Russia was one of the socialist republics within the USSR
since the disintigration of the USSR russia has revertered to being a n independent state again
list of the soviet republics
1. Armenian SSR
2. Azerbaijan SSR
3. Byelorussian SSR
4. Estonian SSR
5. Georgian SSR
6. Kazakh SSR
7. Kyrgyz SSR
8. Latvian SSR
9. Lithuanian SSR
10. Moldavian SSR
11. Russian SFSR
12. Tajik SSR
13. Turkmen SSR
14. Ukrainian SSR
15. Uzbek SSR
2007-02-20 21:43:31 · answer #1 · answered by lion of judah 5 · 10⤊ 1⤋
As everyone else says, the Soviet Union and the USSR are the same thing. The USSR is an abbreviation for the "United Soviet Socialist Republic". It represents the government that existed from about 1919 to 1989. The people of this region of the globe have always been, and will always be, Russians. It is a more a cultural name than a governmental. Today, what remains of the former USSR is called Russia, but several other countries exist as well, which were once part of the USSR.
2007-02-20 21:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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briefly, USSR = Soviet Union = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics now Russia = Russian Federation in times of USSR Russia = RSFSR = Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and was part of USSR before USSR Russia = Russian Empire
2016-04-06 22:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
USSR is the Acronym for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Soviet Union is the shortened version of this, so they are the same thing. The USSR was the bloc of communist countries stretching from Germany to the Pacific Ocean including, Poland, East Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Kyrghyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia and others. Most of these became independent in the early 1990's. The Russian Federation is the remaining bloc of Russia and its regions.
2007-02-22 04:04:33 · answer #4 · answered by David W 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Soviet Russia is an informal name that many people use to refer to Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR) that exists no longer since 1991.
Technically it is incorrect because even though Russia dominated in the Union, there were also 14 other republics that were just as important.
Another common abbreviation of USSR is Soviet Union which is more correct.
2007-02-22 02:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Soviet Union and USSR are the same thing; however, neither is the same as Russia, which was just one republic within the USSR before the collapse. I believe that what was once the USSR is now 15 different independent countries.
2007-02-20 22:06:17 · answer #6 · answered by lebenskunstler3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is The Ussr Russia
2016-12-14 18:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soviet Union and USSR are one and the same. Russia was the central republic, and is now an independant country like all the other old republics of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
2007-02-22 01:05:20 · answer #8 · answered by Our Man In Bananas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soviet Union is the English translation of USSR, which means roghtly the same. That Union is now dead. It used to be in existance up the time of Gorbachov. Then it collapsed, together with its comminism, and the Russia Federation was borne. Few former communist countries joined the newly formmed federation of indipendant states.
Russia is still a country, whose capital is Moscow and is the leading member of the new federation.
All the best!/
2007-02-20 21:45:52 · answer #9 · answered by Ebby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russia was always its own "state" or republic within the former Soviet Union (aka USSR); it was also used to casually (and technically incorrectly) refer to the entire Soviet Union, even though the entire Soviet Union was actually made up of many individual states (republics) within it, one of them being Russia.
The Soviet Union (aka USSR) dissolved as a political entity in 1991. The former republics, including Russia, now self-govern.
Does that help?
2007-02-20 21:46:11 · answer #10 · answered by maxximumjoy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russia is an independent country.
Soviet Union and USSR are the same thing and were a group of countries (so including Ukraine, Belarus etc.) that were under the Soviet banner, but controlled by Russia.
Cynics might say the EU is a version of USSR!!
2007-02-20 21:39:31 · answer #11 · answered by Andy S 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋