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The capital of the Russian SFSR and the USSR as a whole was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad (Petrograd until 1924), Stalingrad (Volgograd after 1961), Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Gorky and Kuybyshev. It was the first socialist state in the world.
- Why was the USSR created? The USSR was created to unite the newly formed Soviet Socialist republics around the Leninist idea of igniting a world socialist revolution and eventually forming a global socialist state.
- Was Lenin the “tsar” of the USSR? No, because, in 1917, Tsarism in Russia ended with Nicholas II’s abdication of the Russian throne. After the October 1917 Revolution, Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, came to power.
- Was the USSR a sovereign state or a congregation of states? The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally a federative state, a union of partially self-governing Soviet Socialist republics, with each one of them having its own governments and Communist Parties.
- How many republics did the USSR have? The number of Soviet Socialist republics in the USSR grew from 4 to 16 in different years. In 1922, the USSR was formed by Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, and Transcaucasian SSRs.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with twelve countries.
Following the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Russian SFSR, the capital was moved back to Moscow in 1918, where it later became the political center of the Soviet Union. In the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Moscow remained the capital city of the newly established Russian Federation.
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Dec 24, 2021 · Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev closes his resignation speech after delivering it at the Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 25, 1991. After 74 years, the Soviet Union was dissolved, breaking into 15...
