In the Soviet Union, all levels of government-controlled Communist Party.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. (Reuters / Grigory Duk) |
After the revolution in Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established on December 30, 1922.
USSR or better known by the name of the Soviet Union consisted of a confederation of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. The communist state is 'successor' of the Russian Empire and the first country in the world that is based on Marxist socialism.
During the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the three years of the Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin dominated the Soviet troops, a coalition of workers and soldiers committees calling for the establishment of a socialist state in the former Russian Empire.
In the Soviet Union, all levels of government-controlled Communist Party, and the party secretary general politburo with their increasingly strong and effectively govern the country. Soviet industrial world are owned and managed by the state, while agricultural land is divided into state-run collective farms.
After decades of established, the Soviet Union dominated by Russia grew into one of the country's most powerful and influential in the world. The Soviet Union had 15 republics which include Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
But the times are constantly moving towards the industry, as well as the collapse one after the country adopts communist and socialist finally had a major impact on the Soviet Union.
Then Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachec, read the signs. Glasnost and Perestroika program which he launched Soviet finally opened to the outside world. Little by little, the Soviet collapse. One by one country that joins decided to separate. In 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved.