Info about Russia
Soviet Russia information
After the October Revolution in 1917 resulting with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and his son, Russia became a republic and the soviet regime was established. Until 1918, when the Constitution was adopted, the country was reffered to as The Russian republic, Russian Soviet Republic or just Soviet Republic. The name that appeared in the Constitution was Russian Socialist Federative Saviet Republic. From 1917 to 1922, Bolshevist Russia and Soviet Russia wre the terms most commonly used.
The name of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is ofetn shorthen to Russian SFSR or just RSFSR. This was the largest republic of the Soviet Union that had the greatest population. It was also the biggest sub-national entity by its area in the whole world and the second one if population is concerned after the Indian state Uttar Pradesh. The capital of the Soviet Russia was Moscow.
On 30 December 1922, the SFSR formed the Soviet Union together woth other three Soviet republics. It was the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that dominated the union for all its 69 years of exsitence. The Saoviet Union was often incorrectly referred to as Russia, but when it comes to what it actually represented, Russia powering other peoles the name does not seem so wrong anymore.
From 1922 to 1991, it was the Communist Party that led the Soviet Union. After Lenindied in 1924, Joseph Stalin was elected Genera; Secretary of the Communist Party and he succeeded to consolidate all the power in Russia in his hands. All his important oppenents were either exiled or imprisuned, most commonly followed by death. The period of 1937-1938 was called the Great Purge and it was then when hundreds of thousand of people were killed in order to accomplish the idea of socialism.
Stalin was the one to lead the soviet Union in the Worls War II which is known in Russia as the Great Patrriotic war. After the end of it, the Russian army occupied most of the eastern Europe, insclusively the eastern Germany.Governmens coordinated by the Soviet Union were installed in the so-calles satellite states and communism was enable to spread.
When Stalin died, he was followed by Nikita Hrushchev, who denounced Stalin’s policy and cult of personality that had reached incredible dimensions. The Gulag camps were no longer an alternative and many political prisoners were released.
Hrushchev was followed by Leonid Brezhnev, who tried to broaden the views of the communist political leaders. It was concious of the fact that the heavy industry present in Russia will no longer be lucrative and tried to change its direction to comsumption gods, but he was not let.
After the revolutions that have taken place in many Soviet states in late 80s and early 90, in 1991, the existence of the Soviet Union, led by Gorbachev, was no longer logical and Russia regained the same of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. A declaration was signed and the existence of communist parties over the territory od RSFSR was banned.