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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 Rus...
- 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...
- Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, [r] officially the Union of Soviet...
- State Emblem
1 day ago · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia.
- 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 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...
The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, or RSFSR, formed on November 7, 1917, was one of the four original republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when the latter was founded by treaty in December 1922. The RSFSR's establishment was later confirmed in the 1924 constitution.
Learning Objectives. Define the main tenets of a socialist economy. Describe some of the conditions of life in the Soviet Union. Briefly explain why the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed. Describe the post-Soviet economic and political situation.
