Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Союз Советских Социалистических Республик Soyuz Sovyetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Russian)
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Sovereignty
Independence:	October Revolution: 7 November 1917 Declaration: 30 December 1922
Demographics
Languages:	Russian (de facto) RSL (Russian Sign Language) Ukrainian Belarusian Uzbek Kazakh Georgian Azerbaijani Lithuanian Moldavian Latvian Kyrgyz Tajik Armenian Turkmen Estonian Hundreds of regional languages
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, is a Legacy Nation situated predominantly in the Zhar Ptitsa. Prior to the Evacuation of Earth, the USSR occupied almost 1/6th of the Earth's inhabited land area. The USSR is a founding member of the Communist Interstellar. It is a flagship communist state.

History

Pre-First Scinfaxi War

Formed out of the territory of the former Russian Empire, the Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), humanity's first constitutionally socialist state. The revolution was not accepted by all within the Russian Republic, resulting in the Russian Civil War. On December 30, 1922, the RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, and Transcaucasian SFSR united into the Soviet Union - with federal bodies of political power historically located in the capital of Moscow. Each union republic retains state sovereignty and the right to freely withdraw from the Union. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin came to power, inaugurating rapid industrialization and forced collectivization that led to significant economic growth but contributed to a famine between 1930 and 1933 that killed millions.