The Soviet Union

The Soviet Union or the USSR(Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is a country primary located in Eurasia or simply Russia. It has 22 Socialist Soviet Republics. It is described to be a communist regime, which was a one party state until Gorbachev reformed the country in the late 80s and early 90s. The capital of the Soviet Union is Moscow, in The Russian RSFSR, which is the most important and 2nd biggest SSR in the USSR besides the Siberian SSR. Other large urban centres are Leningrad, Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Minsk, Tashkent, Kiev and some other notable city's. It is by far the largest country in the world with over 25 Million Square Kilometres in land. its territory consisted of Much of Eastern Europe, All of Central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia and Alaska. Because of this its a very diverse country, both in Geography and People, which are referred to the soviet people. The soviet union is considered to be the most powerful country in the world, after the United States collapsed in 1991.

Formation
The USSR has origins in the Russian Empire. In 1914, the Russian Empire declared war on Austria Hungary as one of the dominoes to start the great war. After a few years, many Russians were dissatisfied with the Russian government and the tsar, so in march of 1917 they removed him from power, creating the provisional government. The provisional government was unpopular among the Russian people, and was criticised by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. After years of war, they the Bolsheviks started to rise up against the Russian government taking Moscow and other heavy populated areas, and leaving the First World war All together. This caused the Russian civil war and it raged on for a few years, and eventually almost all Loyalist army or the white army surrendered to the Bolsheviks, then in 1922, Vladimir Lenin Proclaimed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Interwar period and the Second World war.
The USSR became powerful in the interwar period, as the country starting industrialising under the leader Joesph Stalin. Though Josephs Stalin 5 year plans the nation is able to industrialise, and that is very important later on as the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler invades the ussr in June 1941, which in end caused in failure.

Cold war:
The cold war was the most important point in soviet history. It made the Soviet Union the most powerful country in the world, making it the first eastern Slavic country to become a world superpower, which was never seen before. It all started 2 year after the end of the second world war, when the United States announced the Truman doctrine officially declaring a cold war on the USSR. The cold war was a period of tension between the USSR and the United States over spheres of influnce, technological advancements and more areas of competition. The cold war almost led to mutally assured destruction of both powers, though the arms race and certain situians like the cuban missle crisis. At the end, the ussr became the most powerful country in the world.