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The 'Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic' or 'Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic' (RSFSR) (Росси́йская Сове́тская Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, РСФСР, ''Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika'') was the largest and most populous of the fifteen
Soviet republics, and became the
Russian Federation after the collapse of the
Soviet Union.
History
The RSFSR was established on
November 7,
1917, and on
July 10 1918 the
1918 Soviet Constitution was accepted. It became part of the Soviet Union in 1922, an act formalised by the
1924 Soviet Constitution. In English, the term
Bolshevist Russia is commonly used for the period 1917–1922. In Russian official documents of the time it was referred to as 'Russian Republic' (Российская республика, ''Rossiyskaya respublika'') and 'Soviet Republic' (Советская республика, ''Sovetskaya respublika'').
The country was run by the
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, its most recent title. Its capital was
Moscow, also the capital of the Soviet Union.
Nikita Khrushchev transferred
Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the
Ukrainian SSR in 1955.
The RSFSR ceased to be a part of the
Soviet Union on
December 12 1991, fourteen days before the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It was renamed the
Russian Federation under the leadership of President
Boris Yeltsin, in the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) until 1993.
Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republics (ASSR) within the Russian SFSR
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Bashkir ASSR
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Buryat ASSR
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Dagestan ASSR
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Yakut ASSR
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Kabardino-Balkar ASSR
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Kalmyk ASSR
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Karelian ASSR
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Komi ASSR
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Mari ASSR
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Mordovian ASSR
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Northern Ossetian ASSR
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Udmurt ASSR
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Tatar ASSR
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Chechen-Ingush ASSR
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Chuvash ASSR
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Tuva ASSR
External link
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Full Texts and All Laws Amending Constitutions of the Russian SFSR