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.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,277 kmÂ²), more than twice as large as Texas, the next largest state. It is larger than all but 18 sovereign nations. The next 3 largest states: Texas, California, and Montana.