Mar 01, 2022 · The Soviet Union was one of the world’s most ethnically diverse countries, with more than 100 distinct national ethnicities living within its borders. According to data from the 1989 Soviet census, the population of the Soviet Union was 70% East Slavs, 12% Turkic peoples, and all other ethnic groups below 10%.

Jan 20, 2022 · By Simon Barnes / Jan. 20, 2022 4:45 pm UTC. From 1946 to 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R., covered almost one-sixth of the planet's land surface, spanned 11 time zones, and had longer frontiers and coastlines than any other country in existence, per Britannica. In 1991, a combination of economic and political ...

The USSR also annexed three countries on the Baltic Sea wholesale, creating the Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Estonian SSR. Over time, national delimitation in the Soviet Union resulted in the creation of several new Union-level Republics along ethnic lines, as well as organization of autonomous ethnic regions within Russia.

Nov 24, 2009 · The USSR, also known as the Soviet Union, was established in post-revolutionary Russia. The USSR comprised a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation ...

Oct 18, 2022 · Soviet Union, in full Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik or Sovetsky Soyuz, former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia …

Summary. The 1917 Russian Revolution overthrew the old Russian Empire, which had recognized the United States in 1803 and established diplomatic relations in 1809. Normal diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia were interrupted in 1917 and were resumed on November 16, 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt informed Soviet ...

The USSR had established communist governments in multiple Eastern European countries, creating concern among Western countries regarding the spread of communism to the rest of the world. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed by the U.S., Canada , and European allies as a force against the USSR.