Northern Eurasia 1922: Creation of the Soviet Union
30 December 1922
											
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											Russian Civil War: The Green Phase
									
										
											
												1816–1914 Late Tsarist Russia
											
										
									
										
											
												1914–1918 Great War and the Revolution
											
										
									
										
											
												1918–1921 Russian Civil War: The White Phase
											
										
									
										
											
												1921–1927 Russian Civil War: The Green Phase
											
										
									
										
											
												1927–1941 Soviet Union under Stalin
											
										
									
										
											
												1941–1943 Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
											
										
									
										
											
												1943–1945 Great Patriotic War: Germany at Bay
											
										
									
										
											
												1945–1991 Soviet Superpower
											
										
									
										
											
												1991–pres Successors of the Soviet Union
											
										
									
								
							Creation of the Soviet Union
With foreign troops gone and revolt crushed everywhere except for the sparsely inhabited northeast, the Soviets were ready for the next step. On December 30, 1922, the First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR approved the Treaty of Creation of the USSR, which saw Soviet Russia united with the other Soviet republics in the west to form a single federal state, the Soviet Union.
