Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
In English, the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics In Russian, the CCCP or Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik
When Russia went communist following the Bolshevik Revolution, it became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union). Russia is now an Illiberal Democracy as opposed to a Communist Dictatorship. Most former Soviet States sit on the continuum from Illiberal Democracy and Dictatorship, but none are Communist anymore.
Russia had a major revolution in 1917 that started the communist government and the name of the country became the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) or the Soviet Union. The czar Nicolas II was executed and Vladmir Lenin became the leader.
Soviet Russia
Russia was the only country to become communist during World War 1.
Russia. They became communist during Lenin's reign.
In 1990, a referendum was held in all of the 16 republics of the USSR, and all 16 of them voted to secede from the USSR, even Russia itself. So it was done, as the vote mandated, and then Russia became the more-or-less democratic nation that it is today, in which the communist party is no longer in control, but corruption remains very severe, and Vladimir Putin exerts a quasi-dictatorial power.
Russia became first a communist state and later the largest Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union.
Communism means a classless stateless society based on production for use. Clearly no country became Communist after WW1, and Communism will have to exist at a global level anyway. Russia became state capitalist.
The economic theory of Karl Marx influenced the development of the Soviet Union. Marx's ideas on socialism and the need for a classless society were put into practice by the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin, ultimately leading to the establishment of a communist state in Russia.
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!
China was ruled by the so-called Communist Party after 1949, but it was not a Communist country. Communism means the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a classless society. China became state capitalist after 1949.