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But whereas the changes wrought in French by the French Revolution were canceled by the Thermidorean reaction, in the newly formed and freshly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (more commonly called the USSR or, in Cyrillic, CCCP ) wholesale changes of toponyms, following changes of personal names, did not really set in till the Soviet Thermidor brought Stalin to dictatorial power.
Russia, now the RSFSR (for Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) is only one of several Soviet republics, which are more like states of the United States than what we generally mean by “republic,” and Russians (sometimes redundantly called “ethnic Russians”) make up only about half of the population of the USSR.
The problem of drawing a distinction between Russians and citizens of the USSR has been solved by borrowing the word Soviet into English as an adjective or a noun meaning a person and not an institution, except rarely as in the designation Supreme Soviet . In Russian Sovét means basically `counsel' and `council' and by extension `assembly'.
When Nikita Sergeevich bragged that the USSR would bury the USA, he meant that technologically and economically the Soviets would leave us in the dust, would be around for our funeral, not that they would put us six feet under.
So referring to the USSR as “Russia” is a mistake on the order of calling the United Kingdom or Great Britain “England.”