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.
1 A Look at the Largest States in the U.S. The United States has 50 states. 2  The average U.S. state contains 75,882 square miles. 3  When you examine U.S. states by size, the smallest in land size is Rhode Island with 1,5â¦.