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Article: SOVIET UNION
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The Soviet Union was once the largest country in the world. It consisted
mainly of the lands of the old Russian Empire, which was overthrown
during the Russian Revolution in 1917. The Soviet Union was established
in 1922 with Vladimir Lenin as the first head of a Communist government.
The Soviet Union was a federation of 15 republics, called union republics.
The largest was the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Others
included Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia on the Baltic Sea; the Ukraine
north of the Black Sea; and Kazakhstan in west central Asia.
After Lenin's death and a power struggle, Joseph Stalin was declared
head of the Communist Party in 1929. Stalin ...