Soviet Socialist Republics

In its final decades of its existence, the Soviet Union consisted of 15 Socialist Republics, most of which are now independent countries, only very loosely organized under the heading [Commonwealth of Independent States]?.

• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Belorussia? (now Belarus)
• Estonia
• Georgia
• Kazakstan?
• Kirgiziya? (now Kyrgyzstan)
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Moldavia? (now Moldova)
• Russia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan