In 1922, the Communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian republics. Following Lenin's death in 1924, a troika and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s.
The state with the smallest land area is called Rhode Island.ustralia is the smallest continent with a land area of 7,686,850 sq km.
Oregon ranks among the country's ten largest states in terms of size, covering an area of 98,386 square miles (63 million acres). In its entirety, 95,988 square miles (98 percent) of the state is land, while the remaining 2,391 square miles is covered by water.