A Reformed Union

The Soviet Union, officially named the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known unofficially as Russia, was a Marxist-Leninist single party state located on Eurasia that existed from the end of the Russian Civil War in 1922 to its downfall in 1991. What if the Soviet Union never fell apart but it instead reformed into the Russian Federation?

Point of Diverenge
In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev is successful in keeping the Soviet Union together and he reforms it into the Russian Federation. The new federation retains the old military might of the old union but it becomes a democracy. Russia remains enemies with the United States and the two sides would clashes for the first time in 2011.