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The 1978 Constitution of the RSFSR recognized sixteen autonomous republics within the RSFSR. Their status as of October 2007 within the Russian Federation is given in parentheses: Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast (now Altai Republic ), Adyghe Autonomous Oblast (now Republic of Adygea ), Karachay–Cherkess Autonomous Oblast (now Karachay ...
- Republics of The Soviet Union
Several of the Union Republics themselves, most notably...
- Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union
Autonomous oblasts of the Union of Soviet Socialist...
- Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist...
- Republics of The Soviet Union
- Policies of National Delimitation in The Soviet Union
- National Delimitation in Central Asia
- Nation-Building For Ethnic Minorities
- Dissolution of The Soviet Union
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Pre-1917 Russia was an imperial state, not a nation state. In the 1905 Duma elections the nationalist parties received only 9 percent of all votes. The many non-Russian ethnic groups that inhabited the Russian Empire were classified as inorodtsy, or aliens.[citation needed] After the February Revolution, attitudes in regards to this topic began to ...
Rationale
Russia had conquered Central Asia in the 19th century by annexing the formerly independent khanates of Kokand and Khiva and the Emirate of Bukhara. After the Communists took power in 1917 and created the Soviet Union it was decided to divide Central Asia into ethnically-based republics in a process known as National Territorial Delimitation (NTD). This was in line with Communist theory that nationalism was a necessary step on the path towards an eventually communist society[citation needed],...
Creation of new SSRs and autonomous regions
NTD of the area along ethnic lines had been proposed as early as 1920. At this time Central Asia consisted of two Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (ASSRs) within the Russian SFSR: the Turkestan ASSR, created in April 1918 and covering large parts of what are now southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, as well as Turkmenistan, and the Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz ASSR, Kirgizistan ASSR on the map), which was created on 26 August 1920 in the territory rough...
In the 1920s and the 1930s, the policy of national delimitation, which assigned national territories to ethnic groups and nationalities, was followed by nation-building, attempting to create a full range of national institutions within each national territory. Each officially recognized ethnic minority, however small, was granted its own national t...
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, fifteen newly sovereign states adopted their own policies and laws with regard to national minorities. A number of conflictserupted, some of them fed in part by national or ethnic tensions. In the Russian Federation, some autonomous regions became new ethnic republics. Map showing the ethnic republ...
John Everett-Heath (2003) Central Asia: History, Ethnicity, Modernity, Routledge-Curzon, ISBN 0-7007-0956-8Arne Haugen (2004) The Establishment of National Republics in Central Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 1-4039-1571-7Terry Martin(2001). The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-8014-8677-7Oliver Roy (2000) The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations, NYU Press, ISBN 0-8147-7555-1Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics. * Emblems of the Autonomous Soviet Republics. Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (1920–1925) Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
These were often called Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics. There were a number of them. Most of them still exist; though they are now republics, within the independent state. The Tatar ASSR turned into the Republic of Tatarstan, for example (It is located around Kazan). Soviet republics The Soviet Union, before it collapsed
