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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77962db3-1652-48fc-9e2c-27e454a966f8/0D7476F5-4C3D-414A-AEE4-89B420356937/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_Union&oldid=299327023" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_Union&oldid=299327023" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_Union&oldid=299327023">Emerging from the <A title="Russian Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire">Russian Empire</A> following the <A class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution of 1917" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917">Russian Revolution of 1917</A> and the <A title="Russian Civil War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War">Russian Civil War</A> of 1918–1921, the USSR was a union of several <A title="Republics of the Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union">Soviet republics</A>, but the <A title="Synecdoche" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche">synecdoche</A> <I>Russia</I> — after the <I><A class="mw-redirect" title="Russian SFSR" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_SFSR">Russian SFSR</A></I>, its largest and most populous constituent state — continued to be commonly used throughout the country's existence. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0D7476F5-4C3D-414A-AEE4-89B420356937/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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