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| - The Union of Soviet Republics (USR) is a constitutionally democratic republic that exists in Eurasia since 1922. The name is a translation of the Russian: Союз Советских Республик, Soyuz Sovetskikh Respublik, abbreviated ССР, SSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from Советский Союз, Sovetskiy Soyuz. A soviet is a council, the theoretical basis for the socialist society of the USR.
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| - The Union of Soviet Republics (USR) is a constitutionally democratic republic that exists in Eurasia since 1922. The name is a translation of the Russian: Союз Советских Республик, Soyuz Sovetskikh Respublik, abbreviated ССР, SSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from Советский Союз, Sovetskiy Soyuz. A soviet is a council, the theoretical basis for the socialist society of the USR. Emerging from the Russian Empire following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921, the USSR was a union of several Soviet republics, but the synecdoche Russia — after the Russian SFSR, its largest and most populous constituent state — is continued to be commonly used. The geographic boundaries of the USR varied with time, but after the last major territorial annexations of the Baltic states, eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and certain other territories during World War II, from 1945 the boundaries approximately corresponded to those of late Imperial Russia, with the notable exclusions of Poland, most of Finland, and Alaska. The Soviet Union became the primary model for future Communist states during the Cold War; From 1945 to 1991 period known as the Cold War — the Soviet Union and the United States of America were the two world superpowers that dominated the global agenda of economic policy, foreign affairs, military operations, cultural exchange, scientific advancements including the pioneering of space exploration, and sports (including the Olympic Games and various world championships). Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USR grew to contain 15 constituent or "union republics" by 1956: Armenian SR, Azerbaijan SR, Byelorussian SR, Estonian SR, Georgian SR, Kazakh SR, Kirghiz SR, Latvian SR, Lithuanian SR, Moldavian SR, Russian SFR, Tajik SR, Turkmen SR, Ukrainian SR and Uzbek SR. (From annexation of the Estonian SR on August 6, 1940 up to the reorganization of the Karelo-Finnish SR into the Karelian ASR on July 16, 1956, the count of "union republics" was 16.)
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