Soviet Union (Union timeline)

The Union of Soviet Sovereign States (also known as the 'Soviet Union', the 'USSR' or sometimes as the 'Sovereign Soviet Union') is a socialist confederation of nine--orignially fifteen--republics located in Eurasia

Formed out of Imperial Russia in 1922 by Vladimer Lenin the Soviet Union is the world's first example of a communist state. Until 1991, the Soviet Union was known as the 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' after which it was reformed into its current form as the 'Union of Soviet Sovereign States'.

Currently the Soviet Union is in an alliance with the United Kingdom in a military assualt agianst a totalitarian regime in the United States.

Overview

Formed after the Russian Revolution of 1917 (also known as the Octorber Revolution of 1917), the early Soviet Union consisted of the various territories under the control of Imperial Russia