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 smallest state, Rhode Island, is actually more populous than a number of much larger states, including Montana, Alaska and Wyoming. In fact, Wyoming has the smallest population in the US, with just over half a million residents. Montana, with its famous Big Sky, has almost ten thousand fewer residents than comparatively tiny Rhode Island.