On December 29 and 30 the Treaty of the Soviet Union was approved then signed by representatives of Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation creating the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin did not create the Soviet Union. Vladimir Lenin did that.
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of Russia from 1917 to 1922. He was a communist, and he turned Russia into the Soviet Union. Lenin was predecessor to Stalin.
Lenin was the first dictator of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir I. Lenin
Vladimir Lenin in 1922
Vladimir Lenin, a Communist, overthrew the government of the Russian Empire in 1917 with a rebellion. A war followed; it lasted five years. In 1922, Lenin officially set up the government in Moscow and coined the term "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."
Vladimir Lenin
Russia never "became know as the Soviet Union." However, when it formed the Soviet Union, its name had been changed from Russia to the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic.
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks did in 1917.
He started it because he wanted something different.