Soviet Union was declared in 1922 as a union of socialist states, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Transcaucasian Socialist Federative
Soviet Republic (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan)
After some annexations and World War II the territory of the Soviet Union was enlarged and as result Soviet Union
included the following states (Socialist Republics):
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Answer this question… The Soviet Union became the world's first communist state.
Vladimir I. Lenin became the leader of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Stalin was born in Georgia. He later became the leader of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union
Afghanistan by the Soviet Union became a serious issue between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1986.
Eastern Germany became a part of the Soviet Union after World War 2.
Brezhnev became the Soviet leader after Khruschev.
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved in 1991, leaving 15 'new' states and countries, including Russia. As a result of the 1917 Revolution, Russia became the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic which joined with Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation to create the Soviet Union.
Russia became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Brezhnev.
No one renamed the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was dissolved by its member republics in December 1991. Russia was the largest Soviet republic and became, in a sense, the reincarnation of the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia at the time, but did he rename the Soviet Union into Russia? Not really.Is it possible that the answer one is looking for is President Reagan, who dubbed the Soviet Union "An Evil Empire"?
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.