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 union at more than 656,000 square miles. Florida is about one-tenth the size of Alaska. West Virginia ranks 41st among the 50 states in area. Missouri contains nearly 70,000 square miles. The first state, Delaware, is the second-smallest in the country. Oregon encompasses more than 98,000 square miles. Wisconsin lies roughly in the middle of states, size-wise.