GENESIS: History Of Russia And Former Soviet Republics

by Bill Davidson

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed in post-revolutionary Russia, consisting of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Armenian republics). The new communist state, also known as the Soviet Union, was the successor to the Russian Empire and the world's first Marxist socialist state.

During the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent three-year Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin dominated the soviet forces, a coalition of workers’ and soldiers’ committees that called for the establishment of a socialist state in the former Russian Empire. In the USSR, all levels of government were controlled by the Communist Party, and the party’s politburo, with its increasingly powerful general secretary, effectively ruled the country. Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state-run collective farms.

The Russian-dominated Soviet Union grew to become one of the world's most powerful and influential states in the decades after its founding, eventually encompassing 15 Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Following the fall of the Soviet Union's communist leadership in 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved.

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209 pages, Paperback

Published March 7, 2022