Soviet Russia
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Soviet Russia usually refers to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
, one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union
. It may also denote:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , commonly referred to as Soviet Russia, Bolshevik Russia, or simply Russia, was the largest, most populous and economically developed republic in the former Soviet Union....
, one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. It may also denote:
- Soviet Russia (1919), magazine of the Friends of Soviet RussiaFriends of Soviet RussiaThe Friends of Soviet Russia was formally established in the United States on August 9, 1921 as an offshoot of the American Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with Soviet Russia...
in the United States - Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia), a newspaper in the Soviet Union
- In Soviet Russia a comical AntimetaboleAntimetaboleIn rhetoric, antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order...
first used by Yakov SmirnoffYakov SmirnoffYakov Naumovich Pokhis , better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the...