Sovetskikh Sotsialicheskikh Respublik
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian:Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, romanized: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialicheskikh Respublik), or or informally the Soviet Union is a socialist union encompassing 19 republics and a considerable extent of land in Eurasia. It currently has a population of around 351 million peoples, mainly Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek and many other ethnic groups.
- Ideology and politics
The Soviet Union follows a socialist Marxist-Leninist economy ruled by the sole legal party, the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)(Russian:Всесоюзная Коммунистическая Партия (Большевиков), romanized: Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (Bolshevikov)), which acts as the vanguard party described by the Leninist ideology. The country follows a ideology called Baydınism (Russian: Бáйдынизм, romanized: Baydynizm),which is named after the first General-Secretary of the State (after the Interregnum) Deniz Baydın.