Officially from 1917-1991. However questions have been raised over how much the Russian political system has changed since they officially abandoned communism, as many of the politicians who were in parliament during the communist period of the countries history remained after 1991. Putin himself was part of the KGB (in which to join you had to be proven to be an extreme communist).
74 years.
there was the revolution that made the tsar abdicate and allowed russia to become communist
YES! MANY! And stop it with the offensive communist quesstions!
Russia was under communist government for many decades. They are technically a democracy, but the government is blatantly influenced by the local mafia.
Mao Zedong accomplished the conquest of the entire nation of China in 1949. He led his communist rebels for many years before the goal was achieved.
Russia is an overwhelmingly capitalist country, but with some state controls and regulations, not unlike many other European nations.
It completely destroyed the economy for many years which Russia is only recovering from now, It developed an extremely corrupt government and state, There were huge lacks of infrastructure and there was general unrest. It corrupted and bankrupted the nation basically.
41 years
Russia was founded almost 2,000 years ago.
Russia was state capitalist and controlled other eastern European state capitalist countries. They had no connection at all with Communism (a classless stateless society based on production for use).
Russia was never Communist. The USSR was state capitalist.
There are no countries inside of Russia, since Russia is a nation itself. Europe, however, is home to 50 countries; Russia being one of them.