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If it was the latter, the Cold War didn’t end with the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

What was left of the old Russian Empire would become known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—the USSR, or Soviet Union.

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

On the centenary of the treaty that formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, The Associated Press reviews the events of its rise and fall.

"CCCP" is daubed on a closed shop front - the Cyrillic letters for USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.