Stamps from Soviet Union catalogue

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The Soviet Union existed between 1922 and 1991 and included most of Eurasia. More

After the Russian revolution in 1917, a civil war arose between mainly the communist Red Army and the anti-communist White Army. In December 1922, the war was settled by the Red Army and the Soviet Union was founded. Although officially a union of fifteen sub-national republics, it was a one-party state with a highly centralized government and a tightly state-run economy.

The letters CCCP on the stamps are Cyrillic letters, which is written in Latin letters as SSSR:Soyuz Sovietskich Sotsialistitsjeskich Respoeblik. Between 1923 and 1991 the Soviet Union issued a lot of stamps. Because publications often had a recurring theme, they lend themselves well to a thematic collection, such as sports, space travel, flowers, communism etc..

In 1991 the Soviet Union fell apart and fifteen new countries were created. Of these, the Russian Federation is by far the largest.

Sources
Wikipedia: Soviet Union
Wiki Commons: Russian Federation orthographic projection).svg:Ssolbergj

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