Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; , ), also known as the Russian Soviet RepublicКонституции РСФСР 1918 г.  (in Russian). Hist.msu.ru. Retrieved on 22 June 2011. and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, as well as being unofficially referred to as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people (original VTsIK variant , III Congress revision), article I. the Russian Federation,Colloquially referred to as such for short in intra-Soviet politics (along with the adjacent "Transcaucasian Federation" in the south until 1936). See for example, the log of the meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 19 February 1954 . The Russian SFSR officially renamed into the Russian Federation on Christmas Day, 25 December 1991. or simply Russia, was an independent socialist state from 1917 to 1922.  Afterwards it was the largest and most populous socialist republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation.The Free Dictionary Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic . Encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved on 22 June 2011.

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