history of russia - Soviet Union
Picture of Lenin and Stalin

• • history of russia - Soviet Union - Creation of the Soviet Union
    • The history of Russia between 1922 and 1991 is essentially the history of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union. This ideologically-based union, established in December 1922 by the leaders of the Russian Communist Party, ^{"[http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/themes/society/rsussr.html Tsar Killed} was roughly coterminous with the Russian Empire. At that time, the new nation included four constituent republics: the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, Belarusian SSR, and the Transcaucasian SFSR. ^{Soviet Union Information Bureau}
  • history of russia - Soviet Union - War communism and the New Economic Policy
    • The period from the consolidation of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until 1921 is known as the period of war communism. ^"Richman"
  • history of russia - Soviet Union - Industrialization and collectivization
    • (Picture) The construction of steel-producing city of Magnitogorsk in 1932 appears above. Magnitogorsk was at the forefront of Stalin's Five-Year Plans in the 1930s.
  • history of russia - Soviet Union - The Soviet Union on the international stage
    • • • • history of russia - Soviet Union - The Soviet Union on the international stage - World War II
            • The issue of pre-war Soviet policy toward the Axis Powers remains a matter of controversy; while providing Nazi Germany with economic aid, the USSR supported the republicans of Spain who struggled against the fascist German and Italian troops in the Spanish Civil War. ^{Ericson Payne Radosh} In 1938-1939, immediately prior to the WWII, the Soviet Union successfully fought against Imperial Japan in the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars in the Russian Far East, which led to the Soviet-Japanese neutrality during much of the following battles. ^{Coox Coox}