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.
The largest state, Alaska, is more than four hundred times larger than Rhode Island, the smallest state. Texas is the largest state of the 48 contiguous states. The U.S. states by area listed below include water features that are part of the state and are ranked in size by square miles.