

In a broader sense, Communism covers a wide spectrum of ideologies. Read through this article to know all about it! What Is Communism? We have tried to answer this question of is Russia Communist or not, once and for all. At the same time, the rest are unsure about the current political standing of this country. The RSFSR government, now an independent sovereign nation renamed itself the Russian Federation, and restored the old pre-revolutionary flag of Russia.Due to the strong ties of Russia with the past Communist Super Power, the Soviet Union, many think to this day that the country still follows Communism. When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved on Christmas Day, 1991, the 12 remaining constituent republics (3 had already left) all became independent, sovereign countries. Think of it like if New York City was the capital of the US and most American leaders were from the state of New York. Nevertheless, the RSFSR was by far the largest of the constituent republics, the vast majority of Soviet leaders were Russians, spoke Russian, and all the seats of power in the country were in Russia, especially Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Think of it like the fifty US states, which are co-equal, and combined into one federal government, the United States. The SSRs were all in theory co-equal republics that existed under one federal union, the Union of SSRs. But there were others for the various nations of the USSR, Ukrainians, Armenians, Kazakhs, etc. The largest and most important was the RSFSR, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. For the last 50 years, the USSR was composed of 15 constituent republics, each of which was a Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). The CCCP is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
