Soviet Union, 1917-1991

soviet union  One hundred years ago, at the end of December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was born A little more than five years Although relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had been strained in the years before World War II, the -Soviet alliance of 1941–1945

The Soviet Union was also called the Soviet Russia, although Russia was technically only one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union In 24 Soviet Union Crisis Phase : The Bolshevik government established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (

Collapse of the Soviet Union, sequence of events that led to the dissolution of the on December 31, 1991  Planned by hard-line Communists, the coup diminished Gorbachev's power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian