Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), also known as Soviet Russia, is a Marxist-Leninist, revolutionary state which fought against the old White Army for control of Russia during the Russian Civil War. Founded and organized around the Bolshevik (Majority) faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, they would later re-label themselves as the first Communist state in the world, and the vanguard of the global revolution.
After Soviet Russia gained international recognition as the legitimate government of Russia, remnants of White Russia continued their struggle for control in the Far East. By the late 1920s, with support from the United States, they reorganized and formed the continuity government of the Russian Republic in the Far East. This alternate government of Russia is currently led by Nikolai Avksentiev and Pavel Milyukov.
The death of Joseph Stalin in mid-1922, following an illness he contracted in 1918 while protecting Lenin from an assassination attempt by Fanny Kaplan, halted his Soviet federalization project. Consequently, the People's Commissariat of Nationalities, the precursor to the Soviet Union project, was dissolved. Stalin's death also led to the rapid rise of the Trotskyists (Left Communists), who later became the main rivals to Lenin and other factions. The ensuing factional conflicts within the party resulted in Lenin being elected as chairman of the secretariat, serving jointly with Yakov Sverdlov as a party middleman.
In 1924, Lenin resigned from his position as chairman of Sovnarkom to focus on his duties as chairman of the secretariat, alleviating his workload. Alexei Rykov succeeded him as chairman of Sovnarkom.
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