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Russia

Country in Eastern Europe and North Asia; as Soviet Russia (RSFSR) a founding republic of the USSR, and the Russian Federation since December 1991.

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Also known as
Russian Federation, RSFSR, Soviet Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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  1. headed by Vladimir Lenin (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) 8 Nov 1917 – 21 Jan 1924
How each side tells it

According to Vladimir Lenin

According to Russian government

According to Alexander Kerensky

Soviet Russia, governed from 1917 by the Bolsheviks, signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 and co-founded the Soviet Union in 1922. Since December 1991 it has been the independent Russian Federation, governed by the Russian government.

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founded

  • Soviet Union 30 Dec 1922 founding republic (RSFSR) Primary record 1

headed by

  • Vladimir Lenin 8 Nov 1917 – 21 Jan 1924 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Primary record 2

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Timeline 2 dates
  1. 8 Nov 1917 – 21 Jan 1924 Vladimir Lenin head of Russia
  2. 30 Dec 1922 Russia founded Soviet Union
Proof 10 sources
  1. Declaration of Union and Treaty of Union, December 30, 1922, Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, Michigan State University, 30 Dec 1922. Primary record
    The Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (RSFSR), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (USSR), the Belorussian Socialist Soviet Republic (BSSR) and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics (Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia), hereby conclude a treaty for their union
    The Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (RSFSR), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (USSR), the Belorussian Socialist Soviet Republic (BSSR) and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics (Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia), hereby conclude a treaty
  2. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume I: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Lenin, N. (Vladimir Ulyanov), President of the Soviet of People’s Commissars, November 8, 1917.
  3. Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered?, Law Library of Congress (In Custodia Legis), 8 Jan 2013. Scholarship & press
    This was the Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union, which was adopted 90 years ago on December 30, 1922, by representatives from Belarus, Russia, Transcaucasian SFSR (Transcaucasia, aka South Caucasus), and Ukraine.
  4. Resolution of the Fourth All-Russian (Extraordinary) Soviet Congress ratifying the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Marxists Internet Archive (Documents on Soviet Foreign Policy), 15 Mar 1918. Primary record
    The Congress ratifies the treaty of peace concluded by our representatives at Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918.
  5. Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (translation telegraphed by the US Consul General in Moscow), Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 3 Mar 1918. Primary record
    The territories lying to the west of the line determined by the contracting powers and which formerly belonged to Russia will no longer be under her sovereignty.
  6. The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 27, Progress Publishers), 28 Apr 1918. Primary record Archived copy
    Thanks to the peace which has been achieved—despite its extremely onerous character and extreme instability—the Russian Soviet Republic has gained an opportunity to concentrate its efforts for a while on the most important and most difficult aspect of the socialist revolution
  7. Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, 25 April 2005, Russian government, 25 Apr 2005. Primary record Archived copy
    Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory.
  8. Putin deplores collapse of USSR, BBC, 25 Apr 2005. Scholarship & press
    Russia's President Vladimir Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.
  9. The Catastrophe: Kerensky's Own Story of the Russian Revolution, ch. XIX: Conclusion, Marxists Internet Archive (text of the 1927 English edition), 1927. Primary record Archived copy
    The forcible seizure of the machinery of government by the Bolsheviki in November opened for Russia the period of civil war and terrorism, the period which has not yet found the conclusion.
  10. The Chief Task of Our Day, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 27, Progress Publishers), 12 Mar 1918. Primary record
    He compelled us to sign an incredibly burdensome and humiliating peace—as tribute for having dared to tear ourselves, even for the shortest space of time, from the iron clutches of an imperialist war.
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