Soviet Union

The Soviet Union flag
Yuri Gagarin, hero of the USSR

The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is a country that doesn't exist anymore. It was created in 1922 as a result of the October Revolution and it ceased to exist in 1991 with the end of the Cold War.

In 1991 there were 293,047,571 people living in the Soviet Union for a land area of 22,402,200 km2. The Soviet Union was a socialist country with the goal of eventually developing a communist society.

From 1924 to 1953, it was lead by general-secretary Joseph Stalin.

After Stalin's death, reformists took control of the country and launched capitalist reforms, believed by some to have lead to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.[1]

In 1961 the Soviets sent the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.

The Soviet Union was dissolved on 25 December 1991.

List of Soviet leaders

  1. Vladimir Lenin ;
  2. Joseph Stalin ;
  3. Nikita Khrushchev ;
  4. Leonid Brezhnev ;
  5. Yuri Andropov ;
  6. Konstantin Chernenko ;
  7. Mikhail Gorbachev.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.coldwar.org/articles/90s/fall_of_the_soviet_union.asp
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