Labels:text | screenshot | map OCR: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION SOVIET UNION Thl OVERVIEW RUSSIAN EMPIRE CIVIL WAR ERUPTS . St. Petersburg - Moscow SOVIET UNION FAMINE SPREADS KEY PLAYERS NEW UNION FORMS STALIN'S REIGN NEW UNION FORMS The Russian revolution transformed most of the Russian Empire into a union of Communist-led states, called the Soviet Union. The economy had collapsed under the pressures of the civil war, and Lenin tried to stimulate growth by allowing a brief period of free enterprise CHRONOLOGY . NEWSFLASH ...