You can define things by what they are not, as well as by what they are. For much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union performed this role for the West, which was able to find its self-definition ...

It has been part of the Russian Empire, occupied by the Germans during both World Wars, divided between Poland and the Soviet Union, and finally declared its independence in 1991. Although Belarus ...

The Soviet Union was a socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics ...