Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Sojuz Sovetskikh Sotsialističeskikh Respublik), commonly known as the Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз, Sovetskij Sojuz) of the USSR (Russian: СССР, SSSR) was a socialist state that existed from 1922 to 1991 and was governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.