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.
It is the 7th largest country subdivision in the world. [citation needed] The area of Alaska is 18% of the area of the United States and 21% of the area of the contiguous United States The second largest state, Texas, is only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.