Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union

As an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( ASSR ) is a political subdivision of the Soviet Union was called. According to Article 82 of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Constitution an Autonomous Republic was part of a Socialist Soviet Republic (SSR ).

It existed from 1956 to 1991 20 Autonomous Soviet republics, should the eponymous nationalities gain a degree of autonomy. In most cases, the titular noted, however, only a minority of the population dar.

A major difference to the Soviet Socialist Republics ( SSR) was the missing right of withdrawal from the Soviet Union, as well as the number of seconded in the Union Soviet Deputies: One SSR sent 32, ASSR only 11 MPs, an autonomous area five, an Autonomous County a MPs.

List

After the final constitution of the Soviet Union 7 October 1977 there were 20 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, of which 16 are in the inventory of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, two in the Georgian SSR (now Georgia) and one each in the Azerbaijan SSR (now Azerbaijan ) and the Uzbek SSR ( now Uzbekistan ).

Azerbaijan SSR:

• Nakhchivan ASSR, successor: Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic

Georgian SSR:

• Abkhaz ASSR, successor: Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia ( striving for independence from Georgia, since the armed conflict 1992/1993 stabilized de facto regime as the Republic of Abkhazia )
• Adscharische ASSR, successor: Autonomous Republic of Adjara

Russian SFSR:

• Bashkir ASSR, successor: Republic of Bashkortostan
• Buryat ASSR, successor: Republic of Buryatia
• Dagestan ASSR, successor: Republic of Dagestan
• Kabardino- Balkar ASSR, successor: Republic of Kabardino -Balkaria
• Kalmyk ASSR, successor: Republic of Kalmykia
• Karelian ASSR, successor: Republic of Karelia
• ASSR of the Komi successor: Republic of Komi
• ASSR of Mari, successor: Republic of Mari El
• Mordvinian ASSR, successor: Republic of Mordovia
• Nordossetische ASSR, successor: Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
• Tatar ASSR, successor: Republic of Tatarstan
• Ingush ASSR - Checheno, successor: Republic of Chechnya and Ingushetia
• Chuvash ASSR, successor: Chuvash Republic
• Tuvan ASSR, successor: Republic of Tuva
• Udmurt ASSR, successor: Udmurt Republic
• Yakut ASSR, successor: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia )

Uzbek SSR:

• Karakalpakische ASSR, successor: the Republic of Karakalpakstan

The number of these 20 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics was stable since the 1950s. In earlier times there were in the inventory of several Soviet republics more ASSR:

• In the Russian SFSR: Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of mountain; 20. January 1921 to July 1924, then divided into multiple ASSR of the North Caucasus
• Kabardian ASSR; 1944-1957 instead of the Kabardino- Balkar ASSR
• Kazakh ASSR; 1925-1936
• Kyrgyz ASSR; February 1, 1926 to December 5, 1936, after Kyrgyz SSR, Kyrgyzstan today
• ASSR of the Crimea; 1921-1944 (the Crimean peninsula belonged until 1954 to the Ukrainian SSR )
• Turkestan ASSR; on April 30, 1918 to October 27, 1924
• ASSR of the Volga Germans; of 6 January 1924 ( before that since October 19, 1918 when Soviet " working community " ) until August 28, 1941

• In the Ukrainian SSR: Moldavian ASSR; October 12, 1924 to August 2, 1940; then - increased by Bessarabia - Moldavian SSR, Moldova today

• In the Uzbek SSR: Tajik ASSR; October 14, 1924 to December 5, 1929; then Tajik SSR, today Tajikistan

In 1991, the Autonomous Soviet republics in Russia and the Karakalpakische ASSR declared in Uzbekistan autonomous regions called Republic. The Autonomous Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan were first dissolved, oppose, however - some armed - the abolition of their autonomy.

• Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic