How and when did Russia became the soviet union?

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1. Spellbound says

   Imperial Russia became Socialist Russia in October 1917, Socialist Russia became the Soviet Union in 1922. The area occupied (mostly) by ethnic Russians became the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

   The two revolutions of 1917, the February and the October, saw the country first become a republic, and then a communist state.
   Lenin and the Bolsheviks who took over in October 1917 were concerned about simply replacing Russia's Tsarist Imperialism with Communist Imperialism. This was because the country included many peoples, with territory, languages, customs and religions that were different to ethnic Russia's.
   Stalin proposed that the country should split into national republics for the larger ethnic and linguistic groups – such as the Ukrainians, Byelorussian and the Trans-Caucasians (this was later split into the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).
   This was because the Bolsheviks thought that nationalism was a bourgeois characteristic, and would wither once the communist state emerged, but also that the cultural and linguistic identities of the people of the republics should be fostered and encouraged – creating literary languages for many people for the first time.
   Within Russia itself, after the creation of the national republics, the Soviet Government created autonomous republics for many of the smaller ethno-linguistic groups, such as Tatars, Volga-Germans and Kalmyks.
   The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became (with the exception of the Crimea) the Russian Federation in 1991.
   See:
   The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 By Richard Sakwa

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2. Cossak says

   Evil Lenin and his drunk baltic friends captured St. Petersburg(Petrograd),then just lie,lie,lie and lot of blood.

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3. I hate Jay-Z says

   during World War I Russians decided to start a revolution under the leadership of Lenin

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4. superlolman says

   1 dude named Lenin descided so the poor will overtake the rich, then when it happend the people estabilished communism and convinced other nations in joining, then the formed a big and powerfull country named URSS, it was USA enemies so they sent a spy (Gorbatchov) who destroyed URSS (hes separated all the countries)

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5. JimG says

   It was called the "Bolshevik Revolution."

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