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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
Russia has not been divided. The Soviet Union (1922-1991) has 15 Soviet republics. After Soviet Union destroy all 15 republics became independent Countries: Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Krgizstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan.
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Russia was not divided into separate republics when the Soviet Union was first formed. The Soviet Union was formed when Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Federation (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) banded together to form the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union then added more and more republics. In 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved into 15 separate republics.
Ukraine was in USSR not in Russia!!! Russia was not independet until the break-up of USSR! that is when all the 15 republics became independent states, including UKRAINE and RUSSIA!
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Russia was by far the largest of the republics.
The immediate actions were the declarations of independence of almost all of the former soviet republics, all republics that wanted to stay with russia were annexed into russia and those that wanted independence instead became independent countries.
1991 The USSR did not "turn into Russia." The USSR was a collection of many separate republics into one nation much like the United States is a collection of individual states into one nation. In 1991, the USSR broke up into 15 separate nations one of which was the Russian Federation.
The counterrevolutionary "White Armies" were one after the other defeated. The Bolsheviks won the Civil War and Russia became the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
Russia became the ussr when the Bolsheviks took power in 1917 (I believe that's the date) and Lenin took power then Stalin took power and then the soviet union collapsed and Boris Yeltsin became the first president of russia I hope that answers your question
It isn't as simple as Russia changing its name. No single nation "became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" And it wasn't in 1917. In 1922, Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation (a union of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) joined together to form the USSR by entering into the Treaty of the Soviet Union. As time went on other nearby republics either joined or were absorbed into the USSR.