Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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A regional body of the Soviet Union was designated as the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (ASSR) . According to Article 82 of the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , an Autonomous Republic was part of a Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR).

From 1956 to 1991 there were 20 Autonomous Soviet Republics, which were supposed to give the nationalities they named their names a certain amount of autonomy. In most cases, however , the titular ethnicity only represented a minority of the population.

A major difference to the Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR) was the lack of the right to leave the Soviet Union, as well as the number of MPs sent to the Union Soviet : an SSR sent 32, an ASSR only eleven, an autonomous area five, an autonomous district one MPs.

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According to the last constitution of the Soviet Union of October 7, 1977, there were 20 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, 16 of which were part of the Russian Federative Socialist Soviet Republic , two in the Georgian SSR (now Georgia ) and one each in the Azerbaijani SSR (now Azerbaijan ) and the Uzbek SSR (now Uzbekistan ).

Azerbaijani SSR:

Georgian SSR:

Russian SFSR:

Uzbek SSR:

The number of these 20 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics has been stable since the 1950s. In earlier times there were other ASSRs in several Soviet republics:

In 1991, the Autonomous Soviet Republics in Russia and the Karakalpak ASSR in Uzbekistan declared themselves autonomous regions known as the Republic . The Autonomous Soviet Republics in Georgia and Azerbaijan were initially disbanded, but opposed - partly armed - the lifting of their autonomy.