Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia.

The Soviet Union was annoyed at what seemed to it to be a long delay by the allies in opening a “second front” of the Allied offensive against Germany. As the war in the east turned in favor of the Soviet Union, and despite the successful Allied landings in Normandy in 1944, the earlier friction intensified over irreconcilable differences ...

The Soviet Union by 1948 had installed communist-leaning governments in Eastern European countries that the USSR had liberated from Nazi control during the war. The Americans and British feared ...

The Soviet Union was a one-party state in which the Communist Party controlled all the levers of government. The Soviet Union was composed of 15 separate units, called republics. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Its 15 republics are now independent states. The Soviet Union, formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR ...

The history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991 spans the period from Leonid Brezhnev 's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Due to the years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of domestic development, and complex systemic problems in the command economy, Soviet output stagnated.

The Soviet Union (full name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR) was a socialist state that was created by Vladimir Lenin in 1922. During its existence, the USSR was the largest country in the world. The USSR collapsed in 1991 and left in its place 15 independent states that we know today: Armenia. Moldova.

The Soviet Union officially dissolved on December 25, 1991, effectively ending the 40-year-long Cold War with the United States. When the Soviet Union dissolved, its 15 former Communist Party-controlled republics gained independence, leaving the United States as the world’s last remaining superpower.

The Soviet Union was one of the first formables added in the game, added before the diplomacy update in March 2019. Oddly enough, Rise of Nations does not change the names of St. Petersburg and Volgograd to Leningrad and Stalingrad respectively when you form the Soviet Union, which were the names of the two cities during the Soviet era.

The National Anthem of the Soviet Union or the State Anthem of the USSR (or Hymn, Russian: Государственный гимн СССР, Gosudarstvenny Gimn SSSR) was introduce...