2007-09-02 08:59:57 · 5 answers · asked by Hotbody16 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Russia was only one country in the Soviet Union, which consisted of many countries and about 215 different languages, and is now broken up into many countries again.
Commonly, the Soviet Union was referred to as Russia, which was really a misnomer.
2007-09-02 09:10:55 · answer #1 · answered by oldsalt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't. Russia was one of 15 republics that comprised the Soviet Union. Since Russian language was the official language of the Soviet Union, and Soviet Union's boundaries were somewhat close to those of pre-1917 Russian empire (and for a bunch of other reasons that I don't have time to list), Soviet Union was often referred to as Russia throughout the Western world.
2007-09-02 18:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by NC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russia was not the Soviet Union , but only part of it. Consider it like a state in our country
2007-09-02 17:20:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Soviet Union is short for USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The center of power was in Moscow and Russian was the dominant language imposed on all the smaller states. Some of these states were already a part of the Russian Empire, under the Tsar. The Revolution of 1917 substituted the empire with a socialist state, and it was named USSR in 1922, under Lenin. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
2007-09-02 16:31:46 · answer #4 · answered by Letizia 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
united soviet states of russia
2007-09-02 16:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by Onega 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋