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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 new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the...
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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...
- Republics of The Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union consisted of 15 republics. These were either Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Socialist Federal Republics. Each republic was independent and handled its own cultural affairs. Each also had the right to leave the union, which they did in 1991. The Federal Republics were different in that they had more autonomy, and were made up...
The Soviet Union at its largest size in 1991, with 22,400,000 square kilometres (8,600,000 sq mi), was the world's biggest country. Covering a sixth of the world's land, its total size was comparable to North America's. The western part (in Europe) accounted for a quarter of the country's area, and was the country's cultural and economic center. Th...
The last Russian Tsar (emperor), Nicholas II, ruled Russia until March 1917, when the Russian Empire was taken over and a short-lived "provisional government" replaced it, led by Alexander Kerensky and soon to be overthrown in November by Bolsheviksand started the Russian civil war. From 1917 to 1922, the country that came before the Soviet Union w...
Made on July 20th, 1924, in Moscow, Sovetsky Sportwas the first sports newspaper of the Soviet Union. Sports in the Soviet Union were highly prioritized and tightly controlled. The government invested heavily in athletic programs to showcase Soviet superiority. Success in sports was seen as a reflection of the political system's strength. The empha...
The culture of the Soviet Union went through several stages during the USSR's existence. During the first 10 years following the revolution, there was freedom and artists tested several different styles to find a distinctive Soviet style of art. Lenin wanted art to be available to the Russian people. On the other hand, hundreds of smart people, wri...
Impressions of Soviet Russia by John DeweyRayfield, Donald (2005). Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him. Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-375-75771-6.
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The Bolsheviks also used the name "Russian Republic" until the official name "Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic" was adopted in the Constitution of July 1918. The term is sometimes used erroneously for the period between the abdication of the Emperor Nicholas II on 3 March 1917 (16 March, N.S.) and the declaration of the Republic in ...
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For other uses, see SFSR (disambiguation). This article is about the constituent republics of the Soviet Union. For other uses, see Soviet Republic. For the republics after Soviet dissolution, see Post-Soviet states. Eastern Bloc. Republicsof theUSSR. Armenia. Azerbaijan. Byelorussia. Estonia. Georgia. Kazakhstan. Kirghizia. Latvia. Lithuania.
