The story of Soviet Union

30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991

Soviet Union. Federal socialist state in Eurasia, 1922–1991.

1922

30 Dec 1922: Belarus founded the Soviet Union. Founding republic (Byelorussian SSR). Russia founded the Soviet Union. Founding republic (RSFSR). The Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic founded the Soviet Union. Founding republic. Ukraine founded the Soviet Union. Founding republic (Ukrainian SSR).

30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991: The Soviet Union adopted the union republics’ right to secede.

Article 26 of the 1922 Union Treaty; the Library of Congress notes the 1991 dissolution was based on it.

6 Jul 1923 – 21 Jan 1924

Vladimir Lenin, head of the Soviet Union. Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR.

c. 1929 – 5 Mar 1953

Joseph Stalin, head of the Soviet Union. Leader of party and state.

27 Mar 1958 – 14 Oct 1964

Nikita Khrushchev, head of the Soviet Union. Chairman of the Council of Ministers; also First Secretary of the Communist Party.

16 Jun 1977 – 10 Nov 1982

Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Soviet Union. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

1990 – 25 Dec 1991

Mikhail Gorbachev, head of the Soviet Union. President of the USSR.

Records from opposing sides both confirm this.

The Soviet Union, involved in the Cold War, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the founding of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union benefited from the end of the Cold War.

According to Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Soviet Union, harmed by the end of the Cold War.

According to Fidel Castro.

The Soviet Union, led by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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