Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991)
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| Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика | |
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| 1917–1991 | |
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Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! Workers of the world, unite! | |
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| Capital and largest city | Moscow |
| Official languages | Russian |
| Dominant mode of production | Socialism |
| Government | Marxist-Leninist state |
| History | |
• Great October Socialist Revolution | 7 November 1917 |
• Soviet Union established | 30 December 1922 |
• Sovereignty declared | 12 June 1990 |
| 26 December 1991 | |
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR),[a][note 1] was an independent socialist state from 1917 to 1922 before it was incorporated into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 and eventually becoming the bourgeois state Russian Federation in 1991.
Nomenclature
Geography
The Russian SFSR was the geographically largest Socialist republic within the USSR, maintaining a territory which reached from the Black Sea and Baltic Sea in its most western extremity, to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
History
Government
Culture
References
Notes
- ↑ Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика (РСФСР)
- ↑ It was previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic as well as being unofficially known as Soviet Russia, the Russian Federation or simply Russia.