Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
former autonomous soviet socialist republic of a union republic of the Soviet Union
The Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as Abkhaz ASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Georgian SSR. It came into existence in February 1931, when the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (SSR Abkhazia or SSRA), originally created in March 1921, was transformed into the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Georgian SSR.
The Abkhaz ASSR adopted its own constitution on 2 August 1937. The supreme organ of legislative power was the Supreme Soviet elected every 4 years and its Presidium. The executive power was vested with the Council of Ministers appointed by the Supreme Soviet. The Abkhaz ASSR had 11 representatives in the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
History
Formation
The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (SSR Abkhazia) was established in 1921 following the Soviet invasion of Georgia, in place of the Abkhazian Autonomy. The Abkhazian SSR, which was united with the Georgian SSR later that year as a "treaty republic", existed until 1931. During this period, it was granted considerable autonomy by virtue of its unique status within Georgia. Its precise constitutional status was never fully defined and remained ambiguous; paradoxically, the 1924 Soviet Constitution had referred to Abkhazia as an autonomous republic. This concerned the Soviet and Georgian authorities, and its status was eventually brought into line with that of other autonomous republics. So on 19 February 1931 the SSR Abkhazia was reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Georgian SSR, which itself was a constituent republic of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (TSFSR).
The downgrading of Abkhazia was not popular amongst the Abkhaz population.
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