Expanded History.

 The Soviet Union was a former federation of communist republics that occupied the northern half of Asia and part of eastern Europe, capital, Moscow. Created from the remnants of the Russian empire in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the 1917 Russian revolution was an integral part of Russia’s history especially when it came to the shift of governments/ power, as the Russian revolution led to deposing/assassination of the Russian royal family including Tzar Nicholas III, the former ruler of Russia by forces under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, a man who would later become the first president of Russia or rather the Soviet Union. This event was triggered due to the bloodshed during WW1, which caused many Russian citizens to resent Russia’s ruling class as Tzar Nicholas had not delivered any resolutions that would ensure the safety and health of the Russian people. A man known as Vladimir Lenin saw his people disillusioned with the Tzar and swayed his people via propaganda to overthrow the former Russian empire. Lenin tricked and assassinated the rest of the royal family before they could pose any further threat to the beginnings of Lenin’s new empire, an empire born from communism. This empire was the Soviet Union, the world’s first Marxist-Communist state that would become one of the biggest and most powerful nations in the world, occupying nearly one-sixth of Earth’s land surface, before its fall and ultimate dissolution in 1991 (https://www.history.com/topics/russia/history-of-the-soviet-union); this empire utilized communism to sway the people in supporting Lenin’s dream of creating a brand-new Russia, by expanding the communist ideals Lenin had successfully constructed both a government and a belief system that he thought would help bring Russia out of the shadows while boosting the economy of Russia ensuring that his people would not face another event like what happened during the Tzar’s reign. Communism is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public. There is no government or private property or currency, and the wealth is divided among citizens equally or according to individual needs. But many have described communism as sound on paper but when it comes to utilizing communism the effects have proven to be both disastrous and inhumane. While the same could be said about other forms of government like capitalism, communism relies on the use of a dictatorship where the state controls every aspect of life from the economy to politics. We see this change with the death of Vladimir Lenin. Usually, when an important leader of an empire dies especially when the said leader did not have any biological successors the empire follows suit and crumbles like many empires before it. For instance, Rome with the death of Caesar, the Roman empire came to a standstill and faded away, an empire that was both vast and intelligent as the roman empire was one of the first empires to utilize democracy as well as had advanced knowledge of science at least according to their time. However, the Soviet Union was not like other empires in this regard the influence of communism did not end when Vladimir Lenin died it changed irrevocably with the introduction of a new Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was led by one of the worst dictators ever recorded in history, a man who ruled Soviet Russia with an Iron fist and was responsible for the rapid industrialization of Russia, an action that called for the blatant and deadly expansion of communist beliefs by forcefully acquiring territory to build new factories as well as gather resources needed for Russia’s rapid industrialization. Actions which led to Millions of deaths due to Stalin’s demands for farming; sickness caused by Stalin’s factories and neglected issues ranging from providing ample care for those who were of the lower class to safety regulations; and Russian Gulags where many individuals from varied descents and sexes were sentenced to work because they were sentenced for either speaking out (either against Stalin or his laws) or failing to uphold/follow the standards brought by Stalin’s new Soviet Russia. After the death of Stalin due to illness the government that followed was renamed the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.) which consists of Russia and fourteen surrounding countries. The USSR's territory stretched from the Baltic states in Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, including the majority of northern Asia and portions of central Asia. The USSR sought to keep the power of the previous government by expanding which culminated in the Cold War with the United States of America. The USSR was a government that revolved around socialism, a social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members. While socialism has similarities with Communism it was supposed to be a better version. However, the same problems that arose with the introduction of communism persisted, especially since both doctrines became a tool for the complete control of the Russian people from both economics to politics; this was further proven when the cold war began shortly after between Russia and the United States of America.