![]() ![]() From 1988 to 1991, the USSR gradually broke apart into 25 smaller territories, which coalesced into the 15 post-Soviet republics (and a few still-unrecognized territories) known today. However, social and political unrest, particularly between the country's constituent states and its central government, would eventually lead to its dissolution. The USSR was an undisputed superpower during most of its existence, a communist counterpart to the democratic and capitalistic United States, with a command economy built around the concepts of collectivization and industrialization. In the late 1980s, the Soviet population reached more than 288 million, making it the third-most populous nation in the world. The USSR touched 11 of the world's 24 time zones and had a land area of more than 22,402,200 km² (8,649,500 mi²), nearly matching that of the entire continent of North America. At its peak, the USSR was by far the world's largest country, encompassing all of Northern Asia and most of Eastern Europe and stretching more than 10,900 kilometers (6,800 miles) from end to end and roughly 4,500 km (2,800 mi) top to bottom. ![]() The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Soviet Union or the USSR, was a vast Eurasian country that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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