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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, romanized : Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə sɐˈvʲetskəjə fʲɪdʲɪrɐˈtʲivnəjə sətsɨəlʲɪˈsʲtʲitɕɪskəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə] ⓘ ), previously known as the Ru...
- State Emblem
The emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist...
- Flag of The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Flag of the Russian SFSR (right) on a 1954 stamp with the...
- Far Eastern Republic
Although nominally independent, it largely came under the...
- Russian State
The Russian State was a White Army anti-Bolshevik state...
- Congress of People's Deputies
The Supreme Soviet of RSFSR (later Supreme Soviet of Russian...
- Belarusian People's Republic (Portion)
The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR; Belarusian:...
- Karelo-Finnish SSR
The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelo-Finnish...
- 1993 Russian Constitutional Referendum
Background. Since 1992, President Boris Yeltsin had been...
- State Emblem
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia, was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from ...
- The Revolutions and Civil War: The Prison Gates Pushed Ajar
- The Making of The Soviet Union
- The End of The Russian Revolution
The creation of a state like the Soviet Union wasn’t the inevitable outcome of either of the revolutions of 1917. Both the February Revolutionand the October Revolution could have followed different paths and different leaders to define post-Tsarist nations. Part of the debate—and part of what prolonged the civil war that followed the Bolshevik-led...
Prior to the revolutionary events in 1917, the right to national self-determination was promised by leading Bolsheviks, including Lenin and Stalin, who would become Lenin’s Commissar for Nationalities. The party had long railed against imperialism and continued to debate its position on nationalism. Stalin’s Marxism and the National Question of 191...
The Russian Revolution that promised—and for a time delivered—freedom to the peoples of the now former Tsarist Empire ended with the creation of the USSR. The aims of the February Revolution were never as clear or obvious as the aims of Bolshevik revolution in October, but one of its consequences was the awakening of the consciousness of nations an...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] ( USSR ), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with twelve countries.
Stepan Dudnik. While drafting the projects for the USSR, Lenin and Stalin played a game of ‘good cop and bad cop’. After 1918, most of the former parts of the Russian Empire became Soviet...
Background. For many years, the Russian SFSR had been the sole Soviet republic without a republican-level Communist Party of its own. In fact, in 1947 the NKVD had run an investigation in the so-called Leningrad case against party functionaries accused of wanting to set up a republican Communist Party in the RSFSR.
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, also known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, as well as being unofficially referred to as Soviet Russia, the Russian Federation, or simply Russia, was an independent socialist state from 1917 to 1922.
