Soviet Rus

Soviet Rus (Soviet Russia) is the leader of the Communist Alliance which consists of Soviet Russia itself with it's Puppet States. It is the economic rival of the German Empire and it's puppet states in who has influence in mainland Europe.

## History

### Origins

Modern revolutionary activity in the Russian Empire began with the 1825 Decembrist revolt. Although serfdom was abolished in 1861, it was done on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries. A parliament—the State Duma—was established in 1906 after the Russian Revolution of 1905, but Tsar Nicholas II resisted attempts to move from absolute to a constitutional monarchy. Social unrest continued and was aggravated during World War I by military defeat and food shortages in major cities.

A spontaneous popular uprising in Petrograd, in response to the wartime decay of Russia's economy and morale, culminated in the February Revolution and the toppling of Nicholas II and the imperial government in March 1917. The tsarist autocracy was replaced by the Russian Provisional Government, which intended to conduct elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly and to continue fighting on the side of the Entente in World War I.

At the same time, workers' councils, known in Russian as "Soviets", sprang up across the country. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, pushed for socialist revolution in the Soviets and on the streets. On 7 November 1917, the Red Guards stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd, ending the rule of the Provisional Government and leaving all political power to the Soviets. This event would later be officially known in Soviet bibliographies as the Great October Socialist Revolution. In December, the Bolsheviks signed an armistice with the Central Powers, though by February 1918, fighting had resumed. In March, the Soviets ended involvement in the war and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

The Tsar and his family remained in the capital as the Germans and their loyalists in the White Russian Army conquer the region of St. Petersburg and make them rulers of Germany's Russian Puppet State, because of this the Soviets moved to Moscow and made Moscow the capital of the Soviet Union.

## Government

The Government of Soviet Russia is a Federal Stalinist One Party Totalitarian Dictatorship which is run by General-Secretary Joseph Stalin who is in charge of the only legal party of the Soviet Russia which is the Communist Party. The CPSU is a communist party based on democratic centralism. This principle, conceived by Lenin, entails democratic and open discussion of policy issues within the party, followed by the requirement of total unity in upholding the agreed policies. The highest body within the CPSU is the Party Congress, which convened every five years. When the Congress is not in session, the Central Committee is the highest body. Because the Central Committee meets twice a year, most day-to-day duties and responsibilities are vested in the Politburo.

## Military

Under the Military Law of September 1925, the Soviet Armed Forces consists of three components, namely the Land Forces, the Air Force, the Navy, Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), and the Internal Troops. The OGPU later became independent and in 1934 joined the NKVD, and so its internal troops were under the joint leadership of the defense and internal commissariats.

### Army

**Red Army** is the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Under Stalin's campaign for mechanization, the army formed its first mechanized unit in 1930. The 1st Mechanized Brigade consisted of a tank regiment, a motorized infantry regiment, as well as reconnaissance and artillery battalions. From this humble beginning, the Soviets would go on to create the first operational-level armored formations in history, the 11th and 45th Mechanized Corps, in 1932. These were tank-heavy formations with combat support forces included so they could survive while operating in enemy rear areas without support from a parent front.

### Navy

The Soviet Navy's organizational structure is divided into four major fleets: the Northern, Pacific, Black Sea, and Baltic Fleets, in addition to the Leningrad Naval Base, which was commanded separately. The Soviet Navy also has a smaller fleet, the Caspian Flotilla, which operates in the Caspian Sea and is followed by a larger fleet, the 5th Squadron, in the Middle East. The Soviet Navy included Naval Aviation, Naval Infantry, and the Coastal Artillery.

### Air Force

The Soviet Air Force consts of the Regular Air Force and the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service units taken by the Soviets in 1917.

## Foreign Relations

* Colonial Relations with it's Puppet States
* Bad Relations with everyone else including the German Empire.