Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet republic from 1917 to 1991
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was a revolutionary, and later, communist 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. The Russian SFSR was composed of sixteen smaller constituent units of autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais and forty oblasts. 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.
“Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic” enters the record as soviet republic from 1917 to 1991. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Russian, Soviet and Federative can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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