Factbook of the Soviet Union

[The USSR [Soviet Union]]

Background: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed in 1914, when leaders of the Great Bolshevik Party rose up in arms against their oppressors, and were joined by civilian and military comrades alike.

Government: Federation of Soviet Republics

Leader: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Population: 171 million

Military: (Roughly) 6,800,000

Ethnic Groups: Slavs, Altaics, Uralics, Urals, Caucas, and Dagestani

Location: Northern Asia

Resources: Wide natural resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, timber

Total Size: 22,400,000 km

Climate: Ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast

Terrain: Broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions

Language: Mainly Russian. (104 total languages.)

Capitol: Moscow

Classes: Nobility, clergy, merchants, cossacks, peasants

Religions: Predominantly Orthodox Christianity, other Christian sects, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hare Krishnas

Currency: Soviet Ruble

State of the Nation[/u]

Premier: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
General Secretary of the Communist Party: Josef Stalin
People's Commissar of War:
Minister of War:
Foreign Minister:

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