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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

January 01, 1970

"Soviet Russia" redirects here. For the former socialist nation as a whole, see Soviet Union. For other uses, see Soviet Russia (disambiguation).

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 Russian Soviet Republic[9] and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic,[10] as well as being unofficially referred to as Soviet Russia,[11] the Russian Federation,[12] or simply 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 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR.[13] The Russian SFSR was composed of sixteen smaller constituent units of autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais and forty oblasts.[13] Russians formed the largest ethnic group. The capital of the Russian SFSR and the USSR as a whole was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad, Stalingrad, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Gorky and Kuybyshev. It was the first socialist state in the world.

Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic
Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика
Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika[1]
1917–1991
Motto: Workers of the world, unite!
Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!
Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes'! (tr.)
Anthem: 
The Russian SFSR (red) within the Soviet Union (red and white) between 1956 and 1991
Status
Capital
Largest cityMoscow
Official languagesRussianb
Recognised languagesSee Languages of Russia
Religion
Demonym(s)Russian
Government
Head of state 
• 1917 (first)
Lev Kamenevc
• 1990–1991 (last)
Boris Yeltsind
Head of government 
• 1917–1924 (first)
Vladimir Lenine
• 1990–1991
Ivan Silayevf
• 1991 (last)
Boris Yeltsing
Legislature
Historical era
7 November 1917
1917–1923
• Soviet republic proclaimed
25 January 1918
30 December 1922
19 February 1954
12 June 1990
12 December 1991
• Russian SFSR renamed into the Russian Federation
25 December 1991
26 December 1991
25 December 1993
Area
1956[citation needed]17,125,200 km2 (6,612,100 sq mi)
Population
• 1989[citation needed]
147,386,000
CurrencySoviet ruble (Rbl)h (SUR)
Time zone(UTC +2 to +12)
Calling code+7
ISO 3166 codeRU
Internet TLD.su
  1. Remained the national anthem of Russia until 2000.
  2. Official language in the courts from 1937.[6]
  3. As Chairman of the VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee).
  4. As chairman the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from 29 May 1990 to 10 July 1991, then as President.
  5. As Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR
  6. As Chairmen of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian SFSR
  7. Served as acting head of government while President of Russia
  8. Between 1917 and 1919 the Imperial ruble lost all of its value due to overprinting. It would be replaced that same year by the new Soviet ruble.[7]
Seven Hero City awards
The Russian Democratic Federative Republic existed briefly on 19 January 1918, but actual sovereignty was still in the hands of the Soviets even after the Russian Constituent Assembly opened its first and last session in 1918.[8]

The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR. By 1961, it was the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga-Urals region[14] and Siberia, trailing in production to only the United States and Saudi Arabia.[15] In 1974, there were 475 institutes of higher education in the republic providing education in 47 languages to some 23,941,000 students. A network of territorially organized public-health services provided health care.[13] The economy, which had become stagnant since the late 1970s under General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, began to be liberalized starting in 1985 under Gorbachev's "perestroika" restructuring policies, including the introduction of non-state owned enterprises (e.g. cooperatives).

On 7 November 1917 [O.S. 25 October], as a result of the October Revolution, the Russian Soviet Republic was proclaimed as a sovereign state and the world's first constitutionally socialist state guided by communist ideology. The first constitution was adopted in 1918. In 1922, the Russian SFSR signed a treaty officially creating the USSR. The Russian SFSR's 1978 constitution stated that "[a] Union Republic is a sovereign [...] state that has united [...] in the Union"[16] and "each Union Republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR".[17] On 12 June 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty, established separation of powers (unlike in the Soviet form of government), established citizenship of Russia and stated that the RSFSR shall retain the right of free secession from the USSR. On 12 June 1991, Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), supported by the Democratic Russia pro-reform movement, was elected the first and only President of the RSFSR, a post that would later become the Presidency of the Russian Federation.

The August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt in Moscow with the temporary brief internment of President Mikhail Gorbachev destabilised the Soviet Union. Following these events, Gorbachev lost all his remaining power, with Yeltsin superseding him as the pre-eminent figure in the country. On 8 December 1991, the heads of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belovezha Accords. The agreement declared dissolution of the USSR by its original founding states (i.e., renunciation of the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR) and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a loose replacement confederation. On 12 December, the agreement was ratified by the Supreme Soviet (the parliament of the Russian SFSR); therefore the Russian SFSR had renounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russia's independence from the USSR itself and the ties with the other Soviet republics.

On 25 December 1991, following the resignation of Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union (and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation.[18] The next day, after the lowering of the Soviet flag from the top of the Senate building of the Moscow Kremlin and its replacement by the Russian flag, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of the Republics on 26 December, which by that time was the only functioning parliamentary chamber of the All-Union Supreme Soviet (the other house, Soviet of the Union, had already lost the quorum after recall of its members by the several union republics). After the dissolution, Russia took full responsibility for all the rights and obligations of the USSR under the Charter of the United Nations, including the financial obligations. As such, Russia assumed the Soviet Union's UN membership and permanent membership on the Security Council, nuclear stockpile and the control over the armed forces; Soviet embassies abroad became Russian embassies.[19]

The 1978 constitution of the Russian SFSR was amended several times to reflect the transition to democracy, private property and market economy. The new Russian constitution, coming into effect on 25 December 1993 after a constitutional crisis, completely abolished the Soviet form of government and replaced it with a semi-presidential system.

Nomenclature edit

See also: Name of Russia

Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) and Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), the Bolshevik communists established the Soviet state on 7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917. This happened immediately after the October Revolution toppled the interim Russian Provisional Government (most recently led by opposing democratic socialist Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970)) which had governed the new Russian Republic after the abdication of the Russian Empire government of the Romanov imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II the previous March (Old Style: February). The October Revolution was thus the second of the two Russian Revolutions of the turbulent year of 1917. Initially, the new Soviet state did not have an official name and was not recognized by neighboring countries for five months.

Anti-Bolsheviks soon suggested new names, however. By 1919 they had coined the mocking label Sovdepia (Russian: Совдепия) for the nascent state of the Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies.[20] Speakers of colloquial English coined the term "Bololand"[21] to refer to the land of the Bolos (a term identified from 1919 onwards with the Bolsheviks).[22]

On 25 January 1918 the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets proclaimed the establishment of the Russian Soviet Republic.[23][10][9] The new Soviet authorities and the Central Powers signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918, transferring much of the border territory in the west of the former Russian Empire to the German Empire or to its satellites in exchange for peace during the last year of the rest of World War I. In July 1918, the fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets adopted both the new name, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR), and the Constitution of the Russian SFSR.[24][better source needed]

Internationally, the Russian SFSR was recognized as an independent state in 1920 only by its bordering neighbors (Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania) in the Treaty of Tartu and by the short-lived Irish Republic of 1919–1922 in Ireland.[25]

On 30 December 1922, with the treaty on the creation of the Soviet Union, Russia (the RSFSR), alongside the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR, formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The final Soviet name for the constituent republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, was adopted in the later Soviet Constitution of 1936. By that time, Soviet Russia had gained roughly the same borders of the old Tsardom of Russia before the Great Northern War of 1700 to 1721.

The RSFSR dominated the Soviet Union to such an extent that for most of the Soviet Union's existence, it was commonly, but incorrectly, referred[by whom?] to as Russia; this position is comparable to that of England within the United Kingdom. Technically, Russia itself was only one republic within the larger union – albeit by far the largest, most powerful and most highly developed[quantify] of the 15 republics. Nevertheless, according to historian Matthew White it was an open secret that the country's federal structure was "window dressing" for Russian dominance[speculation?]. For that reason, the people of the USSR were almost always called[by whom?] "Russians", not "Soviets", since "everyone knew who really ran the show".[better source needed][26]

On 25 December 1991, during the collapse of the Soviet Union, which concluded on the next day, the RSFSR's official name was changed to the Russian Federation, which it remains to this day.[27] This name and "Russia" were specified as the official state names on 21 April 1992, in an amendment to the then existing Constitution of 1978, and were retained as such in the subsequent 1993 Constitution of Russia.

Geography edit

At a total of about 17,125,200 km (6,612,100 sq mi), the Russian SFSR was the largest of the fifteen Soviet republics, with its southerly neighbor, the Kazakh SSR, being second.

The international borders of the RSFSR touched Poland on the west; Norway and Finland of Scandinavia on the northwest; and to its southeast in eastern Asia were the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Mongolian People's Republic (Mongolia) and the People's Republic of China (China, formerly the Republic of China; 1911–1949). Within the Soviet Union, the RSFSR bordered the Slavic states: Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine), Belarusian SSR (Belarus), the Baltic states: Estonian SSR (Estonia), Latvian SSR (Latvia) and Lithuanian SSR (Lithuania) (Included in USSR in 1940) to its west and the Azerbaijan SSR (Azerbaijan), Georgian SSR (Georgia) and Kazakh SSR (Kazakhstan) to the south in Central Asia.[13]

Roughly 70% of the area in the RSFSR consisted of broad plains, with mountainous tundra regions mainly concentrated in the east of Siberia with Central Asia and East Asia. The area is rich in mineral resources, including petroleum, natural gas, and iron ore.[28]

History edit

Early years (1917–1920) edit

 
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party.
 
Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution.

The Soviet government first came to power on 7 November 1917, immediately after the interim Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown in the October Revolution, the second of the two Russian Revolutions. The state it governed, which did not have an official name, would be unrecognized by neighboring countries for another five months.

On 18 January 1918, the newly elected Constituent Assembly issued a decree, proclaiming Russia a democratic federal republic under the name "Russian Democratic Federal Republic". However, the Bolsheviks dissolved the Assembly on the following day and declared its decrees null and void.[29] Conversely, the Bolsheviks also reserved a number of vacant seats in the Soviets and Central Executive for the opposition parties in proportion to their vote share at the Congress.[30] At the same time, a number of prominent members of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries had assumed positions in Lenin's government and lead commissariats in several areas. This included agriculture (Kolegaev), property (Karelin), justice (Steinberg), post offices and telegraphs (Proshian) and local government (Trutovsky).[31] Lenin's government also instituted a number of progressive measures such as universal education, healthcare and equal rights for women.[32][33][34]

On 25 January 1918, at the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR) was proclaimed.[23][10][9] On 3 March 1918, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, giving away much of the westernmost lands of the former Russian Empire to the German Empire, in exchange for peace on the Eastern Front of World War I. In July 1918, the fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets adopted the Constitution of the Russian SFSR.[24][better source needed] By 1918, during the Russian Civil War, several states within the former Russian Empire had seceded, reducing the size of the country even more, although some were conquered by the Bolsheviks.

1920s edit

 
The Russian SFSR in 1922
 
The Russian SFSR in 1924
 
The Russian SFSR in 1929

The Russian famine of 1921–22, also known as Povolzhye famine, killed an estimated 5 million, primarily affecting the Volga and Ural River regions.[35]

The economic impact of the Civil War was devastating. A black market emerged in Russia, despite the threat of martial law against profiteering. The ruble collapsed, with barter increasingly replacing money as a medium of exchange[7] and, by 1921, heavy industry output had fallen to 20% of 1913 levels. 90% of wages were paid with goods rather than money.[36] 70% of locomotives were in need of repair[citation needed], and food requisitioning, combined with the effects of seven years of war and a severe drought, contributed to a famine that caused between 3 and 10 million deaths.[37] Coal production decreased from 27.5 million tons (1913) to 7 million tons (1920), while overall factory production also declined from 10,000 million roubles to 1,000 million roubles. According to the noted historian David Christian, the grain harvest was also slashed from 80.1 million tons (1913) to 46.5 million tons (1920).[38]

On 30 December 1922, the First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, by which Russia was united with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic into a single federal state, the Soviet Union. The treaty was included in the 1924 Soviet Constitution,[clarification needed] adopted on 31 January 1924 by the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR.

One of the early ambitious economic plans of the Soviet government was GOELRO, Russian abbreviation for "State Commission for Electrification of Russia" (Государственная комиссия по электрификации России), which sought to achieve total electrification of the entire country. Soviet propaganda declared the plan was basically fulfilled by 1931.[39] The national power output per year stood at 1.9 billion kWh in Imperial Russia in 1913, and Lenin's goal of 8.8 billion kWh was reached in 1931. National power output continued to increase significantly. It reached 13.5 billion kWh by the end of the first five-year plan in 1932, 36 billion kWh by 1937, and 48 billion kWh by 1940.[40]

Paragraph 3 of Chapter 1 of the 1925 Constitution of the RSFSR stated the following:[41]

By the will of the peoples of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, who decided on the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Tenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, being a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, devolves to the Union the powers which according to Article 1 of the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are included within the scope of responsibilities of the government bodies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

1930s edit

 
The Russian SFSR in 1936

Many regions in Russia were affected by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933: Volga, Central Black Soil Region, North Caucasus, the Urals, the Crimea, part of Western Siberia, and the Kazakh ASSR. With the adoption of the 1936 Soviet Constitution on 5 December 1936, the size of the RSFSR was significantly reduced. The Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR were transformed into the Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan) and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kyrgyzstan). The former Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic was transferred to the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbekistan).

The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was adopted by the Russian Constitution of 1937, which renamed it the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

1940s edit

See also: Eastern Front (World War II) and Great Patriotic War (term)
 
The Russian SFSR in 1940

Just four months after Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht was quickly advancing through the Russian SFSR, and was approximately 10 miles (16 km) away from Moscow. However, after the defeat in the Battle of Moscow and the Soviet winter offensive, the Germans were pushed back. In 1942, the Wehrmacht entered Stalingrad. Despite a deadly 5 month lasting battle in which the Soviets suffered over 1,100,000 casualties, they achieved victory following the surrender of the last German troops near the Volga River, ultimately pushing German forces out of Russia by 1944.

In 1943, Karachay Autonomous Oblast was dissolved by Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), General Secretary of the Communist Party, later Premier, when the Karachays were exiled to Central Asia for their alleged collaboration with the invading Germans in the Great Patriotic War (World War II, 1941–1945), and territory was incorporated into the Georgian SSR.

On 3 March 1944, on the orders of Stalin, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was disbanded and its population forcibly deported upon the accusations of collaboration with the invaders and separatism. The territory of the ASSR was divided between other administrative units of Russian SFSR and the Georgian SSR.

On 11 October 1944, the Tuvan People's Republic was joined with the Russian SFSR as the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast, becoming an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1961.

After reconquering Estonia and Latvia in 1944, the Russian SFSR annexed their easternmost territories around Ivangorod and within the modern Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts in 1944–1945.

 
The Battle of Stalingrad, considered by many historians as a decisive turning point of World War II

At the end of World War II Soviet troops of the Red Army occupied southern Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands off the coast of East Asia, north of Japan, making them part of the RSFSR. The status of the southernmost Kurils, north of Hokkaido of the Japanese home islands remains in dispute with Japan and the United States following the peace treaty of 1951 ending the state of war.

On 17 April 1946, the Kaliningrad Oblast – the north-eastern portion of the former Kingdom of Prussia, the founding state of the German Empire (1871–1918) and later the German province of East Prussia including the capital and Baltic seaport city of Königsberg – was annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the Russian SFSR.

1950s edit

 
The Russian SFSR in 1956–1991

After the death of Joseph Stalin on 5 March 1953, Georgy Malenkov became the new leader of the USSR. In January 1954, Malenkov transferred Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. On 8 February 1955, Malenkov was officially demoted to deputy Prime Minister. As First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev's authority was significantly enhanced by Malenkov's demotion.

The Karelo-Finnish SSR was transferred back to the RSFSR as the Karelian ASSR in 1956.

On 9 January 1957, Karachay Autonomous Oblast and Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were restored by Khrushchev and they were transferred from the Georgian SSR back to the Russian SFSR.

1960s–1980s edit

 
Ethnographic map of the Soviet Union, 1970

In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his position of power and replaced with Leonid Brezhnev. Under his rule, the Russian SFSR and the rest of the Soviet Union went through a mass era of stagnation. Even after Brezhnev's death in 1982, the era did not end until Mikhail Gorbachev took power in March 1985 and introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society.

On 12 April 1978, a new Constitution of Russia was adopted.[42]

Early 1990s edit

Main articles: Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt, Belovezh Accords, and 1993 Russian constitutional crisis

On 29 May 1990, at his third attempt, Boris Yeltsin was elected the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR. The Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR on 12 June 1990, which was the beginning of the "War of Laws", pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics.

 
Flag adopted by the Russian SFSR national parliament in 1991

On 17 March 1991, an all-Russian referendum created the post of President of the RSFSR and on 12 June, Boris Yeltsin was elected president by popular vote.

During the unsuccessful 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt of 19–21 August 1991 in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union and Russia, Yeltsin strongly supported the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. On 23 August, Yeltsin, in the presence of Gorbachev, signed a decree suspending all activity by the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR in the territory of Russia.[43] On 6 November, he went further, banning the Communist Parties of the USSR and the RSFSR in the RSFSR.[44]

On 8 December 1991, at Viskuli near Brest (Belarus), Yeltsin, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich signed the "Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States", known in media as the Belovezh Accords. The document, consisting of a preamble and fourteen articles, stated that the Soviet Union no longer existed "as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality". However, based on the historical community of peoples and relations between the three states, as well as bilateral treaties, the desire for a democratic rule of law, the intention to develop their relations based on mutual recognition and respect for state sovereignty, the parties agreed to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. On 12 December, the agreement was ratified by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR by an overwhelming majority: 188 votes for, 6 against and 7 abstentions.[45] The legality of this ratification raised doubts among some members of the Russian parliament, since according to the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978 consideration of this document was in the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR.[46][47][48][49] However, by this time the Soviet government had been rendered more or less impotent, and was in no position to object. On the same day, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and recalled all Russian deputies from the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. A number of lawyers believe that the denunciation of the union treaty was meaningless since it became invalid in 1924 with the adoption of the first constitution of the USSR.[50][51][52] Although the 12 December vote is sometimes reckoned as the moment that the RSFSR seceded from the collapsing Soviet Union, this is not the case. It appears that the RSFSR took the line that it did not need to follow the secession process delineated in the Soviet Constitution because it was not possible to secede from a country that no longer existed.

On 24 December, Yeltsin informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations that by agreement of the member states of the CIS the Russian Federation would assume the membership of the Soviet Union in all UN organs (including the Soviet Union's permanent seat on the UN Security Council). Russia took full responsibility for all the rights and obligations of the USSR under the Charter of the United Nations, including the financial obligations, and assumed control over its nuclear stockpile and the armed forces; Soviet embassies abroad became Russian embassies.[19] On 25 December – just hours after Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union – the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation (Russia), reflecting that it was now a sovereign state with Yeltsin assuming the Presidency.[53] That same night, the Soviet flag was lowered and replaced with the tricolor. The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist the next day. The change was originally published on 6 January 1992 (Rossiyskaya Gazeta). According to law, during 1992, it was allowed to use the old name of the RSFSR for official business (forms, seals, and stamps).

On 21 April 1992, the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia approved the renaming of the RSFSR into the Russian Federation, by making appropriate amendments to the Constitution, which entered into force since publication on 16 May 1992.[54]

Government edit

Main article: Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
See also: List of leaders of the Russian SFSR

The Government was known officially as the Council of People's Commissars (1917–1946) and Council of Ministers (1946–1991). The first government was headed by Vladimir Lenin as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR and the last by Boris Yeltsin as both head of government and head of state under the title of president. The Russian SFSR was controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until the 1991 August coup, which prompted President Yeltsin to suspend the recently created Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Autonomous republics within the Russian SFSR edit

Economy edit

In the first years of the existence of the RSFSR, the doctrine of war communism became the starting point of the state's economic activity. In March 1921, at the X Congress of the RCP (B), the tasks of the policy of "war communism" were recognized by the country's leadership as fulfilled, and a new economic policy was introduced at Lenin's suggestion.

After the formation of the Soviet Union, the economy of the RSFSR became an integral part of the economy of the USSR. The economic program of the RSFSR (NEP) was continued in all union republics. The Gosplan (State General Planning Commission) of the RSFSR, which replaced GOELRO, was reorganized into the Gosplan of the USSR. His early task was to develop a unified national economic plan based on the electrification plan and to oversee the overall implementation of this plan.

Unlike the previous Russian constitutions, the 1978 Constitution devoted an entire chapter (Chapter II) to the description of the economic system of the RSFSR, which defined the types of property and indicated the goals of the economic tasks of the state.[55]

As noted by Corresponding Member RAS RAS V. I. Suslov, who took part in large-scale studies of the relationship between the economies of the republics of the USSR and the RSFSR in the late Soviet era: "The degree of inequality of economic exchange was very high, and Russia was always the losing side. The product created by Russia largely supported the consumption of other union republics".[56]

Culture edit

See also: Culture of Russia

National holidays and symbols edit

Main articles: Public holidays in Russia and Public holidays in the Soviet Union

The public holidays for the Russian SFSR included Defender of the Fatherland Day (23 February), which honors Russian men, especially those serving in the army; International Women's Day (8 March), which combines the traditions of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day; Spring and Labor Day (1 May); Victory Day; and like all other Soviet republics, the Great October Socialist Revolution (7 November).

Victory Day is the second most popular holiday in Russia as it commemorates the victory over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War. A huge military parade, hosted by the President of Russia, is annually organised in Moscow on Red Square. Similar parades take place in all major Russian cities and cities with the status Hero City or City of Military Glory.

 
Matryoshka doll taken apart

During its 76-year existence, the Russian SFSR anthem was the same as the Soviet anthem (unlike other republics): The Internationale until 1944 and then the State Anthem of the USSR. In 1990, the RSFSR adopted its own separate anthem called Patrioticheskaya Pesnya, which went on to become the anthem of independent Russia since 1991. In 2000, Vladimir Putin re-introduced the Soviet anthem. The motto "Workers of the world, unite!" was commonly used and shared with other Soviet republics. The hammer and sickle and the full Soviet coat of arms are still widely seen in Russian cities as part of architectural decorations. The Soviet red stars are also encountered, often on military equipment and war memorials. The Red Banner continues to be honored, especially the Banner of Victory of 1945.

The Matryoshka doll is a recognizable symbol of the Russian SFSR (and the Soviet Union as a whole) and the towers of Moscow Kremlin and Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow are Russian SFSR's main architectural icons. Chamomile is the national flower while birch is the national tree. The Russian bear is an animal symbol and a national personification of Russia. Though this image has a Western origin, Russians themselves have accepted it. The native Soviet Russian national personification is Mother Russia.

Flag history edit

Main article: Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The flag of the Russian SFSR changed numerous times, with the original being a field of red with the Russian name of the republic written on the flag's centre in white. This flag had always been intended to be temporary, as it was changed less than a year after its adoption. The second flag had the letters РСФСР (RSFSR) written in yellow within the canton and encased within two yellow lines forming a right angle. The next flag was used from 1937, notably during World War II. Interesting because it was used until Stalin's death when a major vexillological reform was undertaken within the Soviet Union. This change incorporated an update for all the flags of the Soviet Republics as well as for the flag of the Soviet Union itself. The flag of the Russian SFSR was now a defaced version of the flag of the Soviet Union, with the main difference being a minor repositioning of the hammer and sickle and most notably adding a blue vertical stripe to the hoist. This version of the flag was used from 1954 all the way to 1991, where it was changed due to the ongoing collapse of the Soviet Union. The flag was changed to a design that resembled the original ensign of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, with a notable difference of the flag ratio being 1:2 instead of the original 2:3 ratio. After 1993, when the Soviet form of government was officially dissolved in the Russian Federation, the flag of the Russian Federation was changed to the original civil ensign with its original 2:3 proportions.

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    1991[57][58][a]

Bibliographies edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Later used as a national flag of the Russian Federation until 1993.

References edit

  1. ^ Historical names:
    • 1918: Russian Soviet Republic (Российская Советская Республика; Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Respublika)
    • 1918–1936: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Российская Социалистическая Федеративная Советская Республика; Rossiyskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Federativnaya Sovetskaya Respublika)
    • 1936–1991: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика; Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika)
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russian, soviet, federative, socialist, republic, soviet, russia, redirects, here, former, socialist, nation, whole, soviet, union, other, uses, soviet, russia, disambiguation, russian, sfsr, rsfsr, russian, Российская, Советская, Федеративная, Социалистическа. Soviet Russia redirects here For the former socialist nation as a whole see Soviet Union For other uses see Soviet Russia disambiguation The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Russian SFSR or RSFSR Russian Rossijskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Socialisticheskaya Respublika romanized Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika IPA rɐˈsʲijskeje sɐˈvʲetskeje fʲɪdʲɪrɐˈtʲivneje setsɨelʲɪˈsʲtʲitɕɪskeje rʲɪˈspublʲɪke previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic 9 and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic 10 as well as being unofficially referred to as Soviet Russia 11 the Russian Federation 12 or simply 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 1922 to 1991 until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union level legislation in 1990 and 1991 the last two years of the existence of the USSR 13 The Russian SFSR was composed of sixteen smaller constituent units of autonomous republics five autonomous oblasts ten autonomous okrugs six krais and forty oblasts 13 Russians formed the largest ethnic group The capital of the Russian SFSR and the USSR as a whole was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad Stalingrad Novosibirsk Sverdlovsk Gorky and Kuybyshev It was the first socialist state in the world Russian Soviet FederativeSocialist RepublicRossijskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Socialisticheskaya RespublikaRossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika 1 1917 1991Top Flag 1918 1925 Bottom Flag 1954 1991 Top Emblem 1918 1920 Bottom Emblem 1978 1991 Motto Workers of the world unite Proletarii vseh stran soedinyajtes Proletarii vsekh stran soyedinyaytes tr Anthem Worker s Marseillaise 1917 1918 source source The Internationale 1918 1944 source source track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track State Anthem of the Soviet Union 1944 1990 source source track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track track Patrioticheskaya Pesnya 1990 1991 source source source track track track track track track track track track track The Russian SFSR red within the Soviet Union red and white between 1956 and 1991Status1917 1922 Sovereign state1922 1991 Union Republic of the Soviet Union1990 1991 Union Republic of the Soviet Union with priority of republican legislationCapitalPetrograd 1917 1918 Moscow 1918 1991 2 Largest cityMoscowOfficial languagesRussianbRecognised languagesSee Languages of RussiaReligionSecular state de jure State atheism de facto Russian Orthodoxy majority Demonym s RussianGovernment1917 1921 Federal parliamentary socialist soviet directorial republic 3 1921 1990 Federal Marxist Leninist one party parliamentary socialist soviet directorial republic 4 1990 1991 Federal multi party parliamentary republicJuly December 1991 Federal multi party semi presidential republic 5 Head of state 1917 first Lev Kamenevc 1990 1991 last Boris YeltsindHead of government 1917 1924 first Vladimir Lenine 1990 1991Ivan Silayevf 1991 last Boris YeltsingLegislature1917 1938 VTsIK Congress of Soviets1938 1990 Supreme Soviet1990 1991 Congress of People s DeputiesHistorical eraWorld War IInterwar periodWorld War IICold War October Revolution7 November 1917 Russian Civil War1917 1923 Soviet republic proclaimed25 January 1918 USSR formed30 December 1922 Crimea transferred to Ukrainian SSR19 February 1954 State sovereignty12 June 1990 Belovezh Accords12 December 1991 Russian SFSR renamed into the Russian Federation25 December 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union26 December 1991 End of the Soviet political system25 December 1993Area1956 citation needed 17 125 200 km2 6 612 100 sq mi Population 1989 citation needed 147 386 000CurrencySoviet ruble Rbl h SUR Time zone UTC 2 to 12 Calling code 7ISO 3166 codeRUInternet TLD suPreceded by Succeeded by 1918 Russian Republic 1920 Russian State 1922 Far Eastern Republic 1923 Priamurye Government 1940 Finland portion 1944 Tuva 1945 Germany portion Japan portion 1956 Karelo Finnish SSR 1918 Ukrainian People s Republic portion Estonia portion Belarusian People s Republic portion Latvia portion 1922 Soviet Union 1924 Uzbek SSR portion 1925 Turkmen SSR 1926 Byelorussian SSR portion 1936 Kazakh SSR 1940 Karelo Finnish SSR 1991 China portion Russian FederationRemained the national anthem of Russia until 2000 Official language in the courts from 1937 6 As Chairman of the VTsIK All Russian Central Executive Committee As chairman the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from 29 May 1990 to 10 July 1991 then as President As Chairman of the Council of People s Commissars of the Russian SFSRAs Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Government of the Russian SFSRServed as acting head of government while President of RussiaBetween 1917 and 1919 the Imperial ruble lost all of its value due to overprinting It would be replaced that same year by the new Soviet ruble 7 Seven Hero City awardsThe Russian Democratic Federative Republic existed briefly on 19 January 1918 but actual sovereignty was still in the hands of the Soviets even after the Russian Constituent Assembly opened its first and last session in 1918 8 The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized accounting for about two thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR By 1961 it was the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga Urals region 14 and Siberia trailing in production to only the United States and Saudi Arabia 15 In 1974 there were 475 institutes of higher education in the republic providing education in 47 languages to some 23 941 000 students A network of territorially organized public health services provided health care 13 The economy which had become stagnant since the late 1970s under General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev began to be liberalized starting in 1985 under Gorbachev s perestroika restructuring policies including the introduction of non state owned enterprises e g cooperatives On 7 November 1917 O S 25 October as a result of the October Revolution the Russian Soviet Republic was proclaimed as a sovereign state and the world s first constitutionally socialist state guided by communist ideology The first constitution was adopted in 1918 In 1922 the Russian SFSR signed a treaty officially creating the USSR The Russian SFSR s 1978 constitution stated that a Union Republic is a sovereign state that has united in the Union 16 and each Union Republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR 17 On 12 June 1990 the Congress of People s Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty established separation of powers unlike in the Soviet form of government established citizenship of Russia and stated that the RSFSR shall retain the right of free secession from the USSR On 12 June 1991 Boris Yeltsin 1931 2007 supported by the Democratic Russia pro reform movement was elected the first and only President of the RSFSR a post that would later become the Presidency of the Russian Federation The August 1991 Soviet coup d etat attempt in Moscow with the temporary brief internment of President Mikhail Gorbachev destabilised the Soviet Union Following these events Gorbachev lost all his remaining power with Yeltsin superseding him as the pre eminent figure in the country On 8 December 1991 the heads of Russia Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belovezha Accords The agreement declared dissolution of the USSR by its original founding states i e renunciation of the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and established the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS as a loose replacement confederation On 12 December the agreement was ratified by the Supreme Soviet the parliament of the Russian SFSR therefore the Russian SFSR had renounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russia s independence from the USSR itself and the ties with the other Soviet republics On 25 December 1991 following the resignation of Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation 18 The next day after the lowering of the Soviet flag from the top of the Senate building of the Moscow Kremlin and its replacement by the Russian flag the USSR was self dissolved by the Soviet of the Republics on 26 December which by that time was the only functioning parliamentary chamber of the All Union Supreme Soviet the other house Soviet of the Union had already lost the quorum after recall of its members by the several union republics After the dissolution Russia took full responsibility for all the rights and obligations of the USSR under the Charter of the United Nations including the financial obligations As such Russia assumed the Soviet Union s UN membership and permanent membership on the Security Council nuclear stockpile and the control over the armed forces Soviet embassies abroad became Russian embassies 19 The 1978 constitution of the Russian SFSR was amended several times to reflect the transition to democracy private property and market economy The new Russian constitution coming into effect on 25 December 1993 after a constitutional crisis completely abolished the Soviet form of government and replaced it with a semi presidential system Contents 1 Nomenclature 2 Geography 3 History 3 1 Early years 1917 1920 3 2 1920s 3 3 1930s 3 4 1940s 3 5 1950s 3 6 1960s 1980s 3 7 Early 1990s 4 Government 4 1 Autonomous republics within the Russian SFSR 5 Economy 6 Culture 6 1 National holidays and symbols 6 2 Flag history 7 Bibliographies 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksNomenclature editSee also Name of Russia This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin 1870 1924 and Leon Trotsky 1879 1940 the Bolshevik communists established the Soviet state on 7 November O S 25 October 1917 This happened immediately after the October Revolution toppled the interim Russian Provisional Government most recently led by opposing democratic socialist Alexander Kerensky 1881 1970 which had governed the new Russian Republic after the abdication of the Russian Empire government of the Romanov imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II the previous March Old Style February The October Revolution was thus the second of the two Russian Revolutions of the turbulent year of 1917 Initially the new Soviet state did not have an official name and was not recognized by neighboring countries for five months Anti Bolsheviks soon suggested new names however By 1919 they had coined the mocking label Sovdepia Russian Sovdepiya for the nascent state of the Soviets of Workers and Peasants Deputies 20 Speakers of colloquial English coined the term Bololand 21 to refer to the land of the Bolos a term identified from 1919 onwards with the Bolsheviks 22 On 25 January 1918 the third meeting of the All Russian Congress of Soviets proclaimed the establishment of the Russian Soviet Republic 23 10 9 The new Soviet authorities and the Central Powers signed the Treaty of Brest Litovsk on 3 March 1918 transferring much of the border territory in the west of the former Russian Empire to the German Empire or to its satellites in exchange for peace during the last year of the rest of World War I In July 1918 the fifth All Russian Congress of Soviets adopted both the new name Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic RSFSR and the Constitution of the Russian SFSR 24 better source needed Internationally the Russian SFSR was recognized as an independent state in 1920 only by its bordering neighbors Estonia Finland Latvia and Lithuania in the Treaty of Tartu and by the short lived Irish Republic of 1919 1922 in Ireland 25 On 30 December 1922 with the treaty on the creation of the Soviet Union Russia the RSFSR alongside the Transcaucasian SFSR the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The final Soviet name for the constituent republic the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was adopted in the later Soviet Constitution of 1936 By that time Soviet Russia had gained roughly the same borders of the old Tsardom of Russia before the Great Northern War of 1700 to 1721 The RSFSR dominated the Soviet Union to such an extent that for most of the Soviet Union s existence it was commonly but incorrectly referred by whom to as Russia this position is comparable to that of England within the United Kingdom Technically Russia itself was only one republic within the larger union albeit by far the largest most powerful and most highly developed quantify of the 15 republics Nevertheless according to historian Matthew White it was an open secret that the country s federal structure was window dressing for Russian dominance speculation For that reason the people of the USSR were almost always called by whom Russians not Soviets since everyone knew who really ran the show better source needed 26 On 25 December 1991 during the collapse of the Soviet Union which concluded on the next day the RSFSR s official name was changed to the Russian Federation which it remains to this day 27 This name and Russia were specified as the official state names on 21 April 1992 in an amendment to the then existing Constitution of 1978 and were retained as such in the subsequent 1993 Constitution of Russia Geography editAt a total of about 17 125 200 km 6 612 100 sq mi the Russian SFSR was the largest of the fifteen Soviet republics with its southerly neighbor the Kazakh SSR being second The international borders of the RSFSR touched Poland on the west Norway and Finland of Scandinavia on the northwest and to its southeast in eastern Asia were the Democratic People s Republic of Korea North Korea Mongolian People s Republic Mongolia and the People s Republic of China China formerly the Republic of China 1911 1949 Within the Soviet Union the RSFSR bordered the Slavic states Ukrainian SSR Ukraine Belarusian SSR Belarus the Baltic states Estonian SSR Estonia Latvian SSR Latvia and Lithuanian SSR Lithuania Included in USSR in 1940 to its west and the Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan Georgian SSR Georgia and Kazakh SSR Kazakhstan to the south in Central Asia 13 Roughly 70 of the area in the RSFSR consisted of broad plains with mountainous tundra regions mainly concentrated in the east of Siberia with Central Asia and East Asia The area is rich in mineral resources including petroleum natural gas and iron ore 28 History editEarly years 1917 1920 edit nbsp Vladimir Lenin founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party nbsp Leon Trotsky founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution The Soviet government first came to power on 7 November 1917 immediately after the interim Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky which governed the Russian Republic was overthrown in the October Revolution the second of the two Russian Revolutions The state it governed which did not have an official name would be unrecognized by neighboring countries for another five months On 18 January 1918 the newly elected Constituent Assembly issued a decree proclaiming Russia a democratic federal republic under the name Russian Democratic Federal Republic However the Bolsheviks dissolved the Assembly on the following day and declared its decrees null and void 29 Conversely the Bolsheviks also reserved a number of vacant seats in the Soviets and Central Executive for the opposition parties in proportion to their vote share at the Congress 30 At the same time a number of prominent members of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries had assumed positions in Lenin s government and lead commissariats in several areas This included agriculture Kolegaev property Karelin justice Steinberg post offices and telegraphs Proshian and local government Trutovsky 31 Lenin s government also instituted a number of progressive measures such as universal education healthcare and equal rights for women 32 33 34 On 25 January 1918 at the third meeting of the All Russian Congress of Soviets the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic RSFSR was proclaimed 23 10 9 On 3 March 1918 the Treaty of Brest Litovsk was signed giving away much of the westernmost lands of the former Russian Empire to the German Empire in exchange for peace on the Eastern Front of World War I In July 1918 the fifth All Russian Congress of Soviets adopted the Constitution of the Russian SFSR 24 better source needed By 1918 during the Russian Civil War several states within the former Russian Empire had seceded reducing the size of the country even more although some were conquered by the Bolsheviks 1920s edit nbsp The Russian SFSR in 1922 nbsp The Russian SFSR in 1924 nbsp The Russian SFSR in 1929 The Russian famine of 1921 22 also known as Povolzhye famine killed an estimated 5 million primarily affecting the Volga and Ural River regions 35 The economic impact of the Civil War was devastating A black market emerged in Russia despite the threat of martial law against profiteering The ruble collapsed with barter increasingly replacing money as a medium of exchange 7 and by 1921 heavy industry output had fallen to 20 of 1913 levels 90 of wages were paid with goods rather than money 36 70 of locomotives were in need of repair citation needed and food requisitioning combined with the effects of seven years of war and a severe drought contributed to a famine that caused between 3 and 10 million deaths 37 Coal production decreased from 27 5 million tons 1913 to 7 million tons 1920 while overall factory production also declined from 10 000 million roubles to 1 000 million roubles According to the noted historian David Christian the grain harvest was also slashed from 80 1 million tons 1913 to 46 5 million tons 1920 38 On 30 December 1922 the First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR by which Russia was united with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic into a single federal state the Soviet Union The treaty was included in the 1924 Soviet Constitution clarification needed adopted on 31 January 1924 by the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR One of the early ambitious economic plans of the Soviet government was GOELRO Russian abbreviation for State Commission for Electrification of Russia Gosudarstvennaya komissiya po elektrifikacii Rossii which sought to achieve total electrification of the entire country Soviet propaganda declared the plan was basically fulfilled by 1931 39 The national power output per year stood at 1 9 billion kWh in Imperial Russia in 1913 and Lenin s goal of 8 8 billion kWh was reached in 1931 National power output continued to increase significantly It reached 13 5 billion kWh by the end of the first five year plan in 1932 36 billion kWh by 1937 and 48 billion kWh by 1940 40 Paragraph 3 of Chapter 1 of the 1925 Constitution of the RSFSR stated the following 41 By the will of the peoples of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic who decided on the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Tenth All Russian Congress of Soviets the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic being a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics devolves to the Union the powers which according to Article 1 of the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are included within the scope of responsibilities of the government bodies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1930s edit nbsp The Russian SFSR in 1936 Many regions in Russia were affected by the Soviet famine of 1932 1933 Volga Central Black Soil Region North Caucasus the Urals the Crimea part of Western Siberia and the Kazakh ASSR With the adoption of the 1936 Soviet Constitution on 5 December 1936 the size of the RSFSR was significantly reduced The Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR were transformed into the Kazakh SSR now Kazakhstan and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Kyrgyzstan The former Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic was transferred to the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbekistan The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was adopted by the Russian Constitution of 1937 which renamed it the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic RSFSR 1940s edit See also Eastern Front World War II and Great Patriotic War term nbsp The Russian SFSR in 1940 Just four months after Operation Barbarossa the Wehrmacht was quickly advancing through the Russian SFSR and was approximately 10 miles 16 km away from Moscow However after the defeat in the Battle of Moscow and the Soviet winter offensive the Germans were pushed back In 1942 the Wehrmacht entered Stalingrad Despite a deadly 5 month lasting battle in which the Soviets suffered over 1 100 000 casualties they achieved victory following the surrender of the last German troops near the Volga River ultimately pushing German forces out of Russia by 1944 In 1943 Karachay Autonomous Oblast was dissolved by Joseph Stalin 1878 1953 General Secretary of the Communist Party later Premier when the Karachays were exiled to Central Asia for their alleged collaboration with the invading Germans in the Great Patriotic War World War II 1941 1945 and territory was incorporated into the Georgian SSR On 3 March 1944 on the orders of Stalin the Chechen Ingush ASSR was disbanded and its population forcibly deported upon the accusations of collaboration with the invaders and separatism The territory of the ASSR was divided between other administrative units of Russian SFSR and the Georgian SSR On 11 October 1944 the Tuvan People s Republic was joined with the Russian SFSR as the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast becoming an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1961 After reconquering Estonia and Latvia in 1944 the Russian SFSR annexed their easternmost territories around Ivangorod and within the modern Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts in 1944 1945 nbsp The Battle of Stalingrad considered by many historians as a decisive turning point of World War II At the end of World War II Soviet troops of the Red Army occupied southern Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands off the coast of East Asia north of Japan making them part of the RSFSR The status of the southernmost Kurils north of Hokkaido of the Japanese home islands remains in dispute with Japan and the United States following the peace treaty of 1951 ending the state of war On 17 April 1946 the Kaliningrad Oblast the north eastern portion of the former Kingdom of Prussia the founding state of the German Empire 1871 1918 and later the German province of East Prussia including the capital and Baltic seaport city of Konigsberg was annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the Russian SFSR 1950s edit nbsp The Russian SFSR in 1956 1991 After the death of Joseph Stalin on 5 March 1953 Georgy Malenkov became the new leader of the USSR In January 1954 Malenkov transferred Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR On 8 February 1955 Malenkov was officially demoted to deputy Prime Minister As First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev s authority was significantly enhanced by Malenkov s demotion The Karelo Finnish SSR was transferred back to the RSFSR as the Karelian ASSR in 1956 On 9 January 1957 Karachay Autonomous Oblast and Chechen Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were restored by Khrushchev and they were transferred from the Georgian SSR back to the Russian SFSR 1960s 1980s edit nbsp Ethnographic map of the Soviet Union 1970 In 1964 Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his position of power and replaced with Leonid Brezhnev Under his rule the Russian SFSR and the rest of the Soviet Union went through a mass era of stagnation Even after Brezhnev s death in 1982 the era did not end until Mikhail Gorbachev took power in March 1985 and introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society On 12 April 1978 a new Constitution of Russia was adopted 42 Early 1990s edit Main articles Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 1991 Soviet coup d etat attempt Belovezh Accords and 1993 Russian constitutional crisis On 29 May 1990 at his third attempt Boris Yeltsin was elected the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR The Congress of People s Deputies of the Republic adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR on 12 June 1990 which was the beginning of the War of Laws pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics nbsp Flag adopted by the Russian SFSR national parliament in 1991 On 17 March 1991 an all Russian referendum created the post of President of the RSFSR and on 12 June Boris Yeltsin was elected president by popular vote During the unsuccessful 1991 Soviet coup d etat attempt of 19 21 August 1991 in Moscow the capital of the Soviet Union and Russia Yeltsin strongly supported the President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev On 23 August Yeltsin in the presence of Gorbachev signed a decree suspending all activity by the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR in the territory of Russia 43 On 6 November he went further banning the Communist Parties of the USSR and the RSFSR in the RSFSR 44 On 8 December 1991 at Viskuli near Brest Belarus Yeltsin Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich signed the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States known in media as the Belovezh Accords The document consisting of a preamble and fourteen articles stated that the Soviet Union no longer existed as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality However based on the historical community of peoples and relations between the three states as well as bilateral treaties the desire for a democratic rule of law the intention to develop their relations based on mutual recognition and respect for state sovereignty the parties agreed to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States On 12 December the agreement was ratified by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR by an overwhelming majority 188 votes for 6 against and 7 abstentions 45 The legality of this ratification raised doubts among some members of the Russian parliament since according to the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978 consideration of this document was in the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress of People s Deputies of the RSFSR 46 47 48 49 However by this time the Soviet government had been rendered more or less impotent and was in no position to object On the same day the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and recalled all Russian deputies from the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union A number of lawyers believe that the denunciation of the union treaty was meaningless since it became invalid in 1924 with the adoption of the first constitution of the USSR 50 51 52 Although the 12 December vote is sometimes reckoned as the moment that the RSFSR seceded from the collapsing Soviet Union this is not the case It appears that the RSFSR took the line that it did not need to follow the secession process delineated in the Soviet Constitution because it was not possible to secede from a country that no longer existed On 24 December Yeltsin informed the Secretary General of the United Nations that by agreement of the member states of the CIS the Russian Federation would assume the membership of the Soviet Union in all UN organs including the Soviet Union s permanent seat on the UN Security Council Russia took full responsibility for all the rights and obligations of the USSR under the Charter of the United Nations including the financial obligations and assumed control over its nuclear stockpile and the armed forces Soviet embassies abroad became Russian embassies 19 On 25 December just hours after Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation Russia reflecting that it was now a sovereign state with Yeltsin assuming the Presidency 53 That same night the Soviet flag was lowered and replaced with the tricolor The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist the next day The change was originally published on 6 January 1992 Rossiyskaya Gazeta According to law during 1992 it was allowed to use the old name of the RSFSR for official business forms seals and stamps On 21 April 1992 the Congress of People s Deputies of Russia approved the renaming of the RSFSR into the Russian Federation by making appropriate amendments to the Constitution which entered into force since publication on 16 May 1992 54 Government editMain article Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic See also List of leaders of the Russian SFSR The Government was known officially as the Council of People s Commissars 1917 1946 and Council of Ministers 1946 1991 The first government was headed by Vladimir Lenin as Chairman of the Council of People s Commissars of the Russian SFSR and the last by Boris Yeltsin as both head of government and head of state under the title of president The Russian SFSR was controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until the 1991 August coup which prompted President Yeltsin to suspend the recently created Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Autonomous republics within the Russian SFSR edit Turkestan ASSR was formed on 30 April 1918 on the territory of the former Turkestan General Governorate As part of the delimitation programme of Soviet Central Asia the Turkestan ASSR along with the Khorezm SSR and the Bukharan PSR were disbanded on 27 October 1924 and replaced by the Soviet Union republics of Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR The latter contained the Tajik ASSR until December 1929 when it too became a full Union republic the Tajik SSR The RSFSR retained the newly formed Kara Kirghiz and the Kara Kalpak autonomous oblasts The latter was part of the Kirgiz then the Kazak ASSR until 1930 when it was directly subordinated to Moscow Bashkir ASSR was formed on 23 March 1919 from several northern districts of the Orenburg Governorate populated by Bashkirs On 11 October 1990 it declared its sovereignty as the Bashkir SSR which in 1992 was renamed the Republic of Bashkortostan Tatar ASSR was formed on 27 May 1920 on the territory of the western two thirds of the Kazan Governorate populated by Tatars On 30 October 1990 it declared sovereignty as the Republic of Tatarstan and on 18 October 1991 declared its independence The Russian constitutional court overturned the declaration on 13 March 1992 In February 1994 a separate agreement was reached with Moscow on the status of Tatarstan as an associate state in Russia with confederate status Kirgiz ASSR was formed on 26 August 1920 from the Ural Turgay Semipalatinsk oblasts and parts of Transcaspia Bukey Horde and Orenburg Governorate populated by Kirgiz Kaysaks former name of Kazakh people Further enlarged in 1921 upon gaining land from Omsk Governorate and again in 1924 from parts of Jetysui Governorate and Syr Darya and Samarkand oblasts On 19 April 1925 it was renamed Kazak ASSR see below Mountain ASSR was formed on 20 January 1921 after the Bolshevik Red Army evicted the short lived Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus Initially composed of several national districts one by one these left the republic until 7 November 1924 when the remains of the republic was partitioned into the Ingush Autonomous Oblast the North Ossetian Autonomous Oblast and the Sunzha Cossack District all subordinates to the North Caucasus Krai Dagestan ASSR was formed on 20 January 1921 from the former Dagestan Oblast On 17 September 1991 it declared sovereignty as the Dagestan SSR Crimean ASSR was formed on 18 October 1921 on the territory of Crimean peninsula within the Russian SFSR following the Red Army s defeat of Baron Wrangel s Army ending the Russian Civil War in Europe On 18 May 1944 it was reduced to the status of oblast alongside the criminal deportation of the Crimean Tatars now recognized as genocide as collective punishment for alleged collaboration with the German occupation regime in Taurida Subdistrict On 19 February 1954 the oblast was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR Re established on 12 February 1991 it declared sovereignty on 4 September of that year On 5 May 1992 it declared independence as the Republic of Crimea On 13 May the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine overturned the declaration but compromised on an Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine After the 2014 Ukrainian revolution a Russian military intervention and a disputed referendum Crimea was annexed by Russia in March 2014 a move largely considered illegal by the international community Yakut ASSR was formed on 16 February 1922 upon the elevation of the Yakut Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR On 27 September 1990 it declared sovereignty as the Yakut Sakha Soviet Socialist Republic From 21 December 1991 it has been known as the Republic of Sakha Yakutia Buryat ASSR was formed on 30 March 1923 as due to the merger of the Mongol Buryat Autonomous Oblast of the RSFSR and the Buryat Mongol Autonomous Oblast of the Far Eastern Republic Until 7 July 1958 Mongol Buryat ASSR On 27 March 1991 it became the Republic of Buryatia Karelian ASSR was formed on 23 July 1923 when the Karelian Labor Commune was integrated into the RSFSR s administrative structure On 31 March 1940 it was elevated into a full Union republic as the Karelo Finnish SSR On 16 July 1956 it was downgraded in status to that of an ASSR and re subordinated to RSFSR It declared sovereignty on 13 October 1991 as the Republic of Karelia Volga German ASSR was formed on 19 December 1924 upon elevation of the Volga German Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR On 28 August 1941 upon the deportation of Volga Germans to Central Asia the ASSR was disbanded The territory was partitioned between the Saratov and Stalingrad Oblasts Kazak ASSR was formed on 19 April 1925 when the first Kirghiz ASSR was renamed and partitioned Upon the ratification of the new Soviet constitution the ASSR was elevated into a full Union Republic on 3 December 1936 On 25 October 1990 it declared sovereignty and on 16 December 1991 its independence as the Republic of Kazakhstan Chuvash ASSR was formed on 21 April 1925 upon the elevation of the Chuvash Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR It declared sovereignty on 26 October 1990 as the Chuvash SSR Kirghiz ASSR was formed on 1 February 1926 upon elevation of the Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast Upon the ratification of the new Soviet constitution the ASSR was elevated into a full Union Republic on 3 December 1936 On 12 December 1990 it declared sovereignty as the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and on 31 August 1991 its independence Kara Kalpak ASSR was formed on 20 March 1932 upon elevation of the Kara Kalpak Autonomous Oblast into the Kara Kalpak ASSR from 5 December 1936 a part of the Uzbek SSR In 1964 it was renamed the Karakalpak ASSR It declared sovereignty on 14 December 1990 Mordovian ASSR was formed on 20 December 1934 upon the elevation of Mordovian Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR It declared sovereignty on 13 December 1990 as the Mordovian SSR Since 25 January 1991 it has been known as the Republic of Mordovia Udmurt ASSR was formed on 28 December 1934 upon the elevation of Udmurt Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR It declared sovereignty on 20 September 1990 Since 11 October 1991 it has been known as the Udmurt Republic Kalmyk ASSR was formed on 20 October 1935 upon the elevation of Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR On 27 December 1943 upon the deportation of the Kalmyks the ASSR was disbanded and split between the newly established Astrakhan Oblast and parts adjoined to Rostov Oblast Krasnodar Krai and Stavropol Krai On 9 January 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast was re established in its present borders first as a part of Stavropol Krai and from 19 July 1958 as a part of the Kalmyk ASSR On 18 October 1990 it declared sovereignty as the Kalmyk SSR Kabardino Balkar ASSR was formed on 5 December 1936 upon the departure of the Kabardino Balkar Autonomous Oblast from the North Caucasus Kray After the deportation of the Balkars on 8 April 1944 the republic is renamed as Kabardin ASSR and parts of its territory transferred to Georgian SSR Upon the return of the Balkars the KBASSR is re instated on 9 January 1957 On 31 January 1991 the republic declared sovereignty as the Kabardino Balkar SSR and from 10 March 1992 as the Kabardino Balkarian Republic Northern Ossetian ASSR was formed on 5 December 1936 upon the disbandment of the North Caucasus Kray and its constituent North Ossetian Autonomous Oblast was raised into an ASSR Declared sovereignty on 26 December 1990 as the North Ossetian SSR Chechen Ingush ASSR was formed on 5 December 1936 when the North Caucasus Krai was disestablished and its constituent Chechen Ingush Autonomous Oblast was elevated into an ASSR and subordinated to Moscow Following the en masse deportation of the Chechens and Ingush on 7 March 1944 the ChIASSR was disbanded and the Grozny Okrug was temporarily administered by Stavropol Kray until 22 March when the territory was portioned between North Ossetian and Dagestan ASSRs and the Georgian SSR The remaining land was merged with Stavropol Krays Kizlyar district and organised as Grozny Oblast which existed until 9 January 1957 when the ChIASSR was re established though only the southern border s original shape was retained It declared sovereignty on 27 November 1990 as the Chechen Ingush Republic On 8 June 1991 the 2nd Chechen National Congress proclaimed a separate Chechen Republic Noxchi Cho and on 6 September began a coup which overthrew the Soviet local government De facto all authority passed to the self proclaimed government which was renamed as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in early 1993 In response the western Ingush districts after a referendum on 28 November 1991 were organised into an Ingush Republic which was officially established on 4 June 1992 by decree of Russian President as the Republic of Ingushetia The same decree de jure created a Chechen republic although it would be established only on 3 June 1994 and carry out partial governance during the First Chechen War The Khasavyurt Accord would again suspend the government on 15 November 1996 The present Chechen Republic government was re established on 15 October 1999 Komi ASSR was formed on 5 December 1936 upon the elevation of the Komi Zyryan Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR Declared sovereignty on 23 November 1990 as the Komi SSR and from 26 May 1992 as the Republic of Komi Mari ASSR was formed on 5 December 1936 upon the elevation of the Mari Autonomous Oblast into an ASSR Declared Sovereignty on 22 December 1990 as the Mari Soviet Socialist Republic Mari El Tuva ASSR was formed on 10 October 1961 when the Tuva Autonomous Oblast was elevated by whom into an ASSR On 12 December 1990 it declared sovereignty as the Soviet Republic of Tyva Gorno Altai ASSR was formed on 25 October 1990 when Gorno Altai Autonomous Oblast declared sovereignty Since 3 July 1991 it has been known as the Gorno Altai SSR Karachayevo Cherkessian ASSR was formed on 17 November 1990 when Karachay Cherkess Autonomous Oblast was elevated into an ASSR and instead of Stavropol Krai subordinated directly to the RSFSR It declared sovereignty on 3 July 1991 as the Karachay Cherkess SSR Economy editIn the first years of the existence of the RSFSR the doctrine of war communism became the starting point of the state s economic activity In March 1921 at the X Congress of the RCP B the tasks of the policy of war communism were recognized by the country s leadership as fulfilled and a new economic policy was introduced at Lenin s suggestion After the formation of the Soviet Union the economy of the RSFSR became an integral part of the economy of the USSR The economic program of the RSFSR NEP was continued in all union republics The Gosplan State General Planning Commission of the RSFSR which replaced GOELRO was reorganized into the Gosplan of the USSR His early task was to develop a unified national economic plan based on the electrification plan and to oversee the overall implementation of this plan Unlike the previous Russian constitutions the 1978 Constitution devoted an entire chapter Chapter II to the description of the economic system of the RSFSR which defined the types of property and indicated the goals of the economic tasks of the state 55 As noted by Corresponding Member RAS RAS V I Suslov who took part in large scale studies of the relationship between the economies of the republics of the USSR and the RSFSR in the late Soviet era The degree of inequality of economic exchange was very high and Russia was always the losing side The product created by Russia largely supported the consumption of other union republics 56 Culture editSee also Culture of Russia National holidays and symbols edit Main articles Public holidays in Russia and Public holidays in the Soviet Union The public holidays for the Russian SFSR included Defender of the Fatherland Day 23 February which honors Russian men especially those serving in the army International Women s Day 8 March which combines the traditions of Mother s Day and Valentine s Day Spring and Labor Day 1 May Victory Day and like all other Soviet republics the Great October Socialist Revolution 7 November Victory Day is the second most popular holiday in Russia as it commemorates the victory over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War A huge military parade hosted by the President of Russia is annually organised in Moscow on Red Square Similar parades take place in all major Russian cities and cities with the status Hero City or City of Military Glory nbsp Matryoshka doll taken apart During its 76 year existence the Russian SFSR anthem was the same as the Soviet anthem unlike other republics The Internationale until 1944 and then the State Anthem of the USSR In 1990 the RSFSR adopted its own separate anthem called Patrioticheskaya Pesnya which went on to become the anthem of independent Russia since 1991 In 2000 Vladimir Putin re introduced the Soviet anthem The motto Workers of the world unite was commonly used and shared with other Soviet republics The hammer and sickle and the full Soviet coat of arms are still widely seen in Russian cities as part of architectural decorations The Soviet red stars are also encountered often on military equipment and war memorials The Red Banner continues to be honored especially the Banner of Victory of 1945 The Matryoshka doll is a recognizable symbol of the Russian SFSR and the Soviet Union as a whole and the towers of Moscow Kremlin and Saint Basil s Cathedral in Moscow are Russian SFSR s main architectural icons Chamomile is the national flower while birch is the national tree The Russian bear is an animal symbol and a national personification of Russia Though this image has a Western origin Russians themselves have accepted it The native Soviet Russian national personification is Mother Russia Flag history edit Main article Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The flag of the Russian SFSR changed numerous times with the original being a field of red with the Russian name of the republic written on the flag s centre in white This flag had always been intended to be temporary as it was changed less than a year after its adoption The second flag had the letters RSFSR RSFSR written in yellow within the canton and encased within two yellow lines forming a right angle The next flag was used from 1937 notably during World War II Interesting because it was used until Stalin s death when a major vexillological reform was undertaken within the Soviet Union This change incorporated an update for all the flags of the Soviet Republics as well as for the flag of the Soviet Union itself The flag of the Russian SFSR was now a defaced version of the flag of the Soviet Union with the main difference being a minor repositioning of the hammer and sickle and most notably adding a blue vertical stripe to the hoist This version of the flag was used from 1954 all the way to 1991 where it was changed due to the ongoing collapse of the Soviet Union The flag was changed to a design that resembled the original ensign of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire with a notable difference of the flag ratio being 1 2 instead of the original 2 3 ratio After 1993 when the Soviet form of government was officially dissolved in the Russian Federation the flag of the Russian Federation was changed to the original civil ensign with its original 2 3 proportions nbsp 1917 1918 nbsp 1918 1937 nbsp 1937 1954 nbsp 1954 1991 nbsp 1991 57 58 a Bibliographies editBibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union Bibliography of the post Stalinist Soviet UnionNotes edit Later used as a national flag of the Russian Federation until 1993 References edit Historical names 1918 Russian Soviet Republic Rossijskaya Sovetskaya Respublika Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Respublika 1918 1936 Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Rossijskaya Socialisticheskaya Federativnaya Sovetskaya Respublika Rossiyskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Federativnaya 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