Is the USSR Russian or Asian and what does it stand for?
The USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It included
what is now Russia (a country which is both Asian and European) and a number of other territories, some of which, like Kazakhstan, are clearly Asian and others, like Belarus, which just as clearly are not.
Russia has been through many manifestations, and has included many territories which are no longer part of Russia. Up to 1917 there was the Russian Empire. Then there was the Russian revolution, which resulted in the USSR. This was a federal state, Russia was the largest state in the USSR. This included many, but not all territory which was in the Russian Empire. In the Second World war the USSR re-gained much, but not all…
Do you mean the Russian Revolution or the USSR Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution took place in 1917 where the people where overthrowing the tsars and then created a communist government USSR The USSR technically ended in 1991 but in 1987 President Reagan began deteriorating the government with his famous speech at the Berlin Wall "Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall"
"USSR" is the English form, and it was the abbreviation for "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". In Russian it was "Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik", but the Cyrillic character for the sound of the letter S looks like the Latin character C, and the Cyrillic character representing the sound of the letter R looks like the Latin character P, so to someone used to English the Russian abbreviation would have looked like "CCCP".
The USSR was a Russian empire. Most countries in Eastern Europe used to be part of Russia, and was under Russian control during the Soviet Union's reign. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, the Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan were all part of the USSR and Finland achieved independence just prior to the formation of the USSR.