Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The largest constituent republic of the Soviet Union, established in 1917 and dissolved in 1991. Its territory and institutions formed the principal basis of the Russian Federation.

October Revolution: The Bolshevik-led uprising in Petrograd in October 1917 that overthrew Russia’s Provisional Government. It brought the Bolsheviks to power and led to the RSFSR’s founding.
Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1936: The Soviet constitution adopted in 1936, which defined union and republic institutions and formalized universal suffrage. It set out the RSFSR’s constitutional position within the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin: The Bolshevik revolutionary who led the Soviet government from 1917 until his death in 1924. He led the government that founded and initially governed the RSFSR.
Formation of the Soviet Union: The creation of the USSR in 1922 as a union of Soviet republics. The RSFSR became the largest founding republic of the union.
Russian Civil War: The armed conflict in the former Russian Empire from 1917 to 1922, fought among the Bolsheviks, their opponents, and other forces. The Bolsheviks consolidated control over the republic during this war.
Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR: The RSFSR’s highest legislative body, formally elected under Soviet constitutional arrangements. It was the republic-level legislature within the Soviet system.
Joseph Stalin: The Soviet leader who ruled the USSR from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. His centralizing rule transformed the RSFSR’s economy and political life.
Russian SFSR sovereignty declaration: The declaration adopted on June 12, 1990, asserting the priority of RSFSR laws over Soviet laws. It accelerated the republic’s separation of authority from the union center.
Russian Soviet Republic: The Soviet state established after the October Revolution, formally named the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1918. This early state was the direct institutional beginning of the RSFSR.
Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR: The RSFSR’s chief executive and administrative body, subordinate to its supreme soviet. It administered republic-level affairs under the Soviet party-state.

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