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Russia and the Soviet union are the same thing. So is Soviet Russia and the U.S.S.R. As well the Soviet Union(U.S.S.R) was just Russia and its satellite countries put together under communist rule in Russia.
In soviet russia leadership doesn't change.
Russia became first a communist state and later the largest Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union.
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Russia never "became know as the Soviet Union." However, when it formed the Soviet Union, its name had been changed from Russia to the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic.
Under his rule, Russia was humiliatingly defeated in the Russo-Japanese War.
Kyrgyzstan was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, a.k.a. the Soviet Union), but it has been independent since 1991.
Up to 1991Kazakh SSR (Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) under the USSR ("Soviet Russia")
Non-communist Russia was called Russia. When Russia was under communism, it was called the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics or the USSR.
Nicholas de Basily is an author associated with books related to architecture and art history. Some of his notable works include "Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties" and "Art Nouveau: From Mackintosh to Liberty."
No, it isn't. At the time the Soviet Union was still in existence, "Russia" was one part of the Soviet Union, although by far the largest and most dominant. In December 1922, Russia, then known as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, joined with Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation to form the Soviet Union. After that over time, the Soviet Union annexed or took under its control many other nearby republics, such as Uzbekistan, Khazakstan and others.