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[[File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg.png|thumb|Flag of the Soviet Union from 1955-1991]] | [[File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg.png|thumb|Flag of the Soviet Union from 1955-1991]] | ||
The '''Soviet Union''', officially the '''Union of Soviet Socialist Republics''' ('''USSR'''), was a [[State socialism|socialist state]] in [[Eurasia]] that existed from 1922-1991. The | The '''Soviet Union''', officially the '''Union of Soviet Socialist Republics''' ('''USSR'''), was a [[State socialism|socialist state]] in [[Eurasia]] that existed from 1922-1991. The Soviet Union synthesized [[Marxism-Leninism]], '''was the primary actor that defeated [[fascism]] in [[WW2]]''', but tragically fell to [[revisionism]] in 1956, causing systemic [[stagnation]] and [[bureaucracy|bureaucratization]] across the 1960s-1980s, and to which resulted into its ultimate downfall in 1991. | ||
Established by the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU) in the aftermath of the [[Russian Civil War]], the USSR was led by [[Vladimir Lenin]] until his death in 1924. This period set a precedent for [[Leninism]] as a tradition and model for how [[Socialism|socialist]] states should function. [[Joseph Stalin]] came to power after Lenin and began a process of mass industrialization, which was pivotal for the USSR's victory in the [[Great Patriotic War]] against fascism in 1941-1945. It was under Stalin that Marxism-Leninism completed its synthesization with Russian civilization and tradition. During Stalin's era, [[religion]] was reconciled with [[communism]], and the precedent of [[socialist patriotism]] was reaffirmed. Stalin's death in 1953 led to a usurpation of the country by [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who altered the class character of the [[CPSU]] and the Soviet state by replacing the [[dictatorship of the proletariat]] for a social-democratic [[All-People's State]] in 1956.<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1964/phnycom2.htm Mao's Criticism of Khrushchev's Revisionism]</ref> These revisions turned the country towards [[social imperialism]]. The Khrushchev era ultimately contributed to the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|death of the country]] in 1991 due to the a wave of [[historical nihilism]], foreign ideological infiltration, covert [[Color revolution|color revolutions]] and final capitulation to the West by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]. | Established by the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU) in the aftermath of the [[Russian Civil War]], the USSR was led by [[Vladimir Lenin]] until his death in 1924. This period set a precedent for [[Leninism]] as a tradition and model for how [[Socialism|socialist]] states should function. [[Joseph Stalin]] came to power after Lenin and began a process of mass industrialization, which was pivotal for the USSR's victory in the [[Great Patriotic War]] against fascism in 1941-1945. It was under Stalin that Marxism-Leninism completed its synthesization with Russian civilization and tradition. During Stalin's era, [[religion]] was reconciled with [[communism]], and the precedent of [[socialist patriotism]] was reaffirmed. Stalin's death in 1953 led to a usurpation of the country by [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who altered the class character of the [[CPSU]] and the Soviet state by replacing the [[dictatorship of the proletariat]] for a social-democratic [[All-People's State]] in 1956.<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1964/phnycom2.htm Mao's Criticism of Khrushchev's Revisionism]</ref> These revisions turned the country towards [[social imperialism]]. The Khrushchev era ultimately contributed to the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|death of the country]] in 1991 due to the a wave of [[historical nihilism]], foreign ideological infiltration, covert [[Color revolution|color revolutions]] and final capitulation to the West by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]. | ||