This Day in History: 30 December 2019
30 December 1922
97 years ago, today, the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was officially established. This contained a confederation of countries including Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasia Federation (now known as the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Armenian republics). The USSR was also known as the Soviet Union, and was the successor to the Russian Empire, while also being the first country in the world to be founded off of Marxist socialism. The USSR came to be due to the efforts of Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party during the Russian Civil War and the Russian Revolution that came before it. The Bolsheviks were comprised of workers and soldiers, and the USSR had all their levels of government controlled by the party. Industry in the Soviet state was also owned and managed by the state, and the farming land was divided into collective farms, also ran by the state.
Throughout the 20th century, after it was established, the Soviet Union, although having less-than-wealthy beginnings, grew into one of the world's superpowers, and eventually had 15 republics that made up the Union, adding Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, following the collapse of its communist government under the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev.
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