“What? Did the Bolsheviks just start recreating the Russian Empire they literally just destroyed?” That’s what people around the world must have thought when in 1922, the USSR was officially declared a “single united state” comprising 4 republics (Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Republics).
However, the creation of the USSR as we know it was not momentary and not so simple.
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