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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.
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