Map of the former Soviet Union Which countries were in the Soviet Union? The USSR was a socialist state formed after the Russian revolution in 1917.. It was initially a confederation of the states ...

"The Soviet Union has been split." The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remade the world map and upended global politics. Fifteen countries were produced, and power shifted across Europe and Asia.

When the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, Russia lost a lot of its influence. Now Mr Putin appears intent on turning the clock back more than 30 years to the Soviet Union’s heyday.

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

Here are some major milestones in the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., which put 15 new countries on the map. How It Happened On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a sovereign state.

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

At the end of the 1980s, protest movements across the Soviet Union sprung up, with people in the constituent republics calling for independence. ... putting 15 independent countries on the map. ...