List of autonomous areas of the Soviet Union
Autonomous regions ( Russian Автономная область , Awtonomnaja oblast ', abbreviated AO) offered smaller peoples limited cultural autonomy within the Union Republics of the USSR. In theory, the autonomous regions were states .
Russian SFSR
- Adygea Autonomous Oblast , see Adygea
- Circassian Autonomous Oblast , see Karachay-Cherkessia
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Altai Autonomous Oblast , see Altai Republic
- Karachay-Cherkessia Autonomous Oblast , see Karachay-Cherkessia
- Khakassian Autonomous Oblast , see Khakassia
- Tuva Autonomous Oblast , see Tuva
Georgian SSR
Azerbaijani SSR
Tajik SSR
Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ukrainian SSR
literature
- Andreas Heinemann-Grüder : Federal Autonomy in Russia and in the CIS . Ed .: Center for Applied Political Research on Individual Responsibility and Autonomy of the Regions. February 2002 ( lmu.de [PDF]).
- Jochen Franzke: Empire under the red banner: Considerations for the end of the Soviet Union . In: WeltTrends: Journal for International Politics and Comparative Studies . The Subject: The Disintegration of Empires, No. 6 . Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 1995 ( kobv.de [PDF]).