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nouna former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991part of:
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nounformerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
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nouna federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
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nouna former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917part of:
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- stalin Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
- lenin Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
- tolstoy Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910)
- horowitz Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989)
- gogol Russian writer who introduced realism to Russian literature (1809-1852)
- markov Russian mathematician (1856-1922)
- putin Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000; formerly director of the Federal Security Bureau (born in 1952)
- pavlov Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
- pushkin Russian poet (1799-1837)
- dostoyevsky Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)