Search results
4 days ago · Kaliningrad Oblast was an exclave of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 it became separated from the rest of Russia by independent countries.
1 day ago · The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a treaty between the Soviet republics of Byelorussia, Russian SFSR (RSFSR), Transcaucasian Federation, and Ukraine, by which they became its constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union).
2 days ago · He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party.
2 days ago · World War II - Invasion, Soviet Union, 1941: For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3,000,000 men. It was in effect the largest and most powerful invasion force in human history.
4 days ago · On June 22, 1941, Germany attacked the U.S.S.R. Large areas of Estonia were freed from Soviet forces by improvised Estonian units before the German army reached Estonia. For three years Estonia was under German occupation, becoming part of the Ostland province. By February 1944, however, the Russians were back on the Narva front.
2 days ago · Geography & Travel Countries of the World. Soviet Russia. in Russia in History. Also known as: Rossija, Rossiya, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Russian Federation, Russian S.F.S.R., Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Written by. Martin McCauley.
5 days ago · The Soviet Union was a socialist federal state that existed from 1924 to 1991. It occupied much of Asia and Europe and was made up of different Soviet socialist republics. It was founded by the Bolshevik Party, which took power in the Russian Revolution and won the Russian Civil War. After the Second World War, it became one of the most ...
