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The fifteen states of the USSR and their independent names-
* Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR)- [[
* Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR)- [[
* Azerbaijan SSR- [[
* Byelorussian SSR- [[
* Estonian SSR- [[
* Georgian SSR- [[
* Kazakh SSR- [[
* Kirghiz SSR- [[Useful Notes/Kyrgyzstan|Kyrgyzstan]]
* Latvian SSR- [[
* Lithuanian SSR- [[
* Moldavian SSR- [[
* Tajik SSR- [[Useful Notes/Tajikistan|Tajikistan]]
* Turkmen SSR- [[
* Ukrainian SSR- [[
* Uzbek SSR- [[
There were some other republics, but they were fairly short-lived, such as the Transcaucasian SFSR (one of the four founding republics, broken-up into the Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijan SSRs in 1936), the Karelo-Finnish SSR (created in 1940 from conquered Finnish land, incorporated into Russia in 1956) and a number of republics that were proclaimed during the Civil War but did not survive until the establishment of the Soviet Union. There was even a government plan on creating a Jewish SSR, but then [[
The Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Federation were the first four republics when the USSR was proclaimed in 1922. All the others were either carved out of them or established on annexed territories. Constitutionally every SSR had the right to secede, but in practice secession was not a real option before the Perestroika. At first the creation of new republics followed three rules: the republic had to have an international border or a seashore (hence [[wikipedia:Tatarstan|Tatarstan]] did not qualify, even though the USSR had more Tatars than Armenians), a population of at least one million with a clear indigenous ethnic majority (hence [[wikipedia:Sakha Republic|Yakutia]] did not qualify, despite being one of the largest subnational entities in the world) and a strong enough economy to survive as an independent nation. However, the creation of the Karelo-Finnish SSR broke rules two and three, the possible reason being that Stalin may have been planning to annex Finland after [[Finns With Fearsome Forests|the Winter War]]. Also, Kazakhstan did not lose its SSR status after Kazakhs became a minority in their own republic, the most likely reason being it's huge territorial size, and that [[Status Quo Is God]].
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