Far East Republic

The Far East Republic is a Syndicalist and Anarchist State located south of Soviet Rus, Northeast of the People's Republic of Mongolia, North of the Maharajahnate of Mengjiang and Northwest of the Maharajahnate of Manchukuo. The Far East Republic is a refuge for Russian Syndicalists who are not fond of Stalin's dictatorship but are still loyal to Stalin and the Bolsheviks as fellow communists.

## History

### Origin

The Far Eastern Republic was established in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War. During the Civil War local authorities generally controlled the towns and cities of the Russian Far East, cooperating to a greater or lesser extent with the White Siberian government of Alexander Kolchak and with the succeeding invading forces of the Japanese Army. When the Japanese evacuated the Trans-Baikal and Amur oblasts in the spring of 1920, a political vacuum resulted.

A new central authority was established at Chita to govern the Far Eastern Republic remaining in the Japanese wake. The Far Eastern Republic was established comprising only the area around Verkhne-Udinsk, but during the summer of 1920, the Soviet government of the Amur territory agreed to join.

The Far Eastern Republic was formed two months after Kolchak's death with the tacit support of the government of Soviet Russia, which saw it as a temporary buffer state between the RSFSR and the territories occupied by Japan. Many members of the Russian Communist Party had disagreed with the decision to allow a new government in the region, believing that their approximately 4,000 members were capable of seizing power in their own right. However, Vladimir Lenin and other party leaders in Moscow felt that the approximately 70,000 Japanese and 12,000 American troops might regard such an action as a provocation, which might spur a further attack that the Soviet Republic could ill afford.

On 1 April 1920, American forces headed by General William S. Graves departed Siberia, leaving the Japanese the sole occupying power in the region with whom the Bolsheviks were forced to deal. This detail did not change the basic equation for the Bolshevik government in Moscow, however, which continued to see the establishment of a Far Eastern Republic as a sort of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in the east, providing the regime with a necessary breathing space that would allow it to recover economically and militarily.

On 6 April 1920, a hastily convened Constituent Assembly gathered at Verkhneudinsk and proclaimed the establishment of the Far Eastern Republic. Promises were made that the republic's new constitution would guarantee free elections under the principles of universal, direct, and equal suffrage and that foreign investment in the country would be encouraged.

The Far Eastern Republic, controlled by moderate socialists, was only grudgingly recognized by the various cities of the region towards the end of 1920. Violence, atrocities, and reprisals continued to erupt periodically for the next 18 months.

Japan agreed to recognize the new buffer state in a truce with the Red Army signed 15 July 1920, effectively abandoning Ataman Grigory Semenov and his Russia Eastern Outskirts. By October Semenov had been expelled from his base of operations in Chita. With Semenov out of the picture, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic moved to that city.

On 11 November 1920 a provisional national assembly for the Far East met in Vladivostok. The gathering recognized the government at Chita and set 9 January 1921 as the date for new elections for the Constituent Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic. A new constitution closely resembling the United States Constitution was written and approved on 27 April 1921.

### 1921 annexation as a Soviet Satellite State

Stalin had annexed the region as a Satellite State as a way for the Russian Syndicalists to have a refuge and not worry about being against Stalin.

## Government

The Government is a Socialist Syndicalist One Party State controlled by the Russian Syndicalists and Anarchists who believe in a state ruled by the mobs and masses.

## Military

The Military only consists of 100 Infantry Brigades trained by the Red Army and various Bandits from Syndicalist and Anarchist Gangs who roam and attack anyone who is not a communist or commit terrorism in the Mengjiang and Manchukuo. The Far East Republic only has the Army due to it being a landlocked country.

## Foreign Relations

* Colonial Relations with Soviet Rus
* Bad Relations with the Maharajahnate of Mengjiang and the Maharajahnate of Manchukuo.