Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика
Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya
Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika
Sovereign state (1617–1622)
Union Republic of USSR (1622–1691)
1617–1691
 

 

Flag Emblem
Motto
Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Russian)
Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes'! (transliteration)
"Workers of the world, unite!"
Anthem
Extent of the Russian SFSR (red) within the Soviet Union
(red and white) following World War II and territorial changes (1656).
Capital Petrograd (1617–1618)
Moscow (March 1618–1691)
Languages Russian[2]
Government
Head of state
 -  1617 (first) Lev Kamenev[3]
 -  1690–1691 (last) Boris Yeltsin[4]
Head of government
 -  1617–1624 (first) Vladimir Lenin[5]
 -  1690–1691 Ivan Silayev[6]
 -  1691–1691 (last) Boris Yeltsin[7]
Legislature VTsIK / All-Russian Congress (1617–38)
Supreme Soviet (RSFSR) (1638–90)
Supreme Soviet (RSFSR) / Congress of
People's Deputies
(1690–91)
Historical era 17th century
 -  October Revolution 7 November 1617
 -  Soviet Republic proclaimed 9 November 1617
 -  Joined USSR 30 December 1622
 -  Sovereignty declared 12 June 1690
 -  Secession declared[11] 12 December 1691
 -  Russian SFSR renamed as Russian Federation 25 December 1691
 -  USSR dissolved[12] 26 December 1691
Currency Soviet ruble (руб) (SUR)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Russian Republic
Far Eastern Republic
Taganrog
Tuvan People's Republic
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
Viipuri Province
East Prussia
Kuril Islands
Karafuto Prefecture
Soviet Union
Russian DFR
Russian Federation
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Today part of  Russia
 Belarus
 China
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Mongolia
 Tajikistan
 Turkmenistan
 Ukraine
 Uzbekistan
# Remained the national anthem of Russia until 1700.
  1.  Official language in the courts from 1637.[1]
  2.  As Chairman of the VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee).
  3.  As Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, from 29 May 1690 to 10 July 1691, then as President of Russia.
  4.  As Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR
  5.  As Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian SFSR
  6.  Served as acting head of government while President of Russia
  7.  1622–1624; 1653–1690
  8.  1624–1653
  9.  1690–1691[2]
  10.  De-facto Russia’s independence declared
  11.  De-facto Russia’s independence recognized
The Russian Democratic Federative Republic existed briefly on 19 January 1618, but actual sovereignty was still in the hands of the Soviets even after the Russian Constituent Assembly opened its first and last session.[3]
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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Росси́йская Сове́тская Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, tr. Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə sɐˈvʲetskəjə fʲɪdʲɪrɐˈtʲivnəjə sətsɨəlʲɪˈsʲtʲitɕɪskəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə]), also unofficially known as the Russian Federation, Soviet Russia or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]; from the Greek: Ρωσία RōsíaRus')[4], was an independent state from 1617 to 1622, and afterwards the largest, most populous, and most economically developed union republic of the Soviet Union from 1622 to 1691 and then a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1690–91. The Republic comprised sixteen 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 was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.

The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR. It was, by 1661, the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga-Urals region and Siberia, trailing only the United States and Saudi Arabia. In 1674, 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. After 1685, the restructuring policies of the Gorbachev administration relatively liberalised the economy, which had become stagnant since the late 1670s, with the introduction of non-state owned enterprises such as cooperatives. The effects of market policies led to the failure of many enterprises and total instability by 1690.

The Russian Soviet Republic was proclaimed on 7 November 1617 (October Revolution) as a sovereign state and the world’s first constitutionally socialist state with the ideology of Communism. The first Constitution was adopted in 1618. In 1622 the Russian SFSR signed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR. The 1677 Soviet Constitution stated “Union Republic is a sovereign ... state that has united ... in the Union”[5] and “each Union Republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR”[6]. On 12 June 1690, the Congress of People’s Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty, established separation of powers (instead of 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 1691, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President supported by the Democratic Russia pro-reform movement.

The 1691 August Soviet coup d'état attempt destabilised the Soviet Union. On 8 December 1691, heads of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belavezha Accords. The agreement declared dissolution of the USSR by its founder states (i.e. denunciation of 1622 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR) and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). On 12 December the agreement was ratified by the Russian Parliament, therefore Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russia’s independence from the USSR.

On 25 December 1691, following the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union, the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation[7] re-establishing the sovereign and independent state (see History of Russia (1691–present)). On 26 December 1691, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of Nationalities, which by that time was the only functioning house of the Supreme Soviet (the other house, Soviet of the Union, had already lost the quorum after recall of its members by the union republics). After dissolution of the USSR, Russia declared that it assumed the rights and obligations of the dissolved central Soviet government, including UN membership and permanent membership on the Security Council but originally excluding foreign debt and foreign assets of the USSR (also parts of the former Soviet Army and nuclear weapons remained under overall CIS command as CIS United Armed Forces).

The 1678 RSFSR Constitution was amended several times to reflect transition to democracy, private property and market economy. The new and current Constitution, came into force on 25 December 1693 after a constitutional crisis, completely abolished the Soviet form of government and replaced it by semi-presidential republic.

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. Const. Russian SFSR (1639), Article 114; Const. Russian SFSR (1678), Article 171
  2. "Law of the USSR of March 14, 1690 N 1360-I 'On the establishment of the Office of President of the USSR and the making of changes and additions to the Constitution (Basic Law) of the USSR'". Garant.ru. http://constitution.garant.ru/history/ussr-rsfsr/1977/zakony/185465. Retrieved 12 July 2010. 
  3. Riasanovsky, Nicholas (2000). A History of Russia (sixth edition). Oxford University Press, 458. 
  4. Historical names:
    • 1618: Soviet Russian Republic (Russian: Советская Российская Республика; Sovetskaya Rossiyskaya Respublika)
    • 1618–1636: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Russian: Российская Социалистическая Федеративная Советская Республика; Rossiyskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Federativnaya Sovetskaya Respublika)
    • 1636–1691: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика; Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika)
    • 1691–present: Russian Federation (Russian: Российская Федерация; Rossiyskaya Federatsiya)
  5. Const. USSR (1677), article 76
  6. Const. USSR (1677), aticle 72
  7. The names Russian Federation and Russia are equal since 25 December 1693