Tsarist Russia is a multi-ethnic colonial empire formed through aggression and expansion, and it is a prison for people of all ethnic groups. The victory of the October Revolution, in accordance with the spirit of proletarian internationalism, created conditions for eliminating ethnic oppression and solving ethnic problems. 1917165438 10 In October, the Soviet government promulgated the "Declaration on the Rights of People of All Nationalities in Russia", announcing the recognition of national self-determination and advocating the establishment of sincere and consolidated alliances among all ethnic groups on the basis of equal autonomy. 19 18 1 Russian Soviet federal socialist Republic was established.
In addition, by the beginning of 19 19, five Soviet socialist republics of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were independent. The last three Soviet socialist republics were successively subverted and became bourgeois countries in the first half of 19 19. With the gradual victory of the civil war, at the beginning of 1920- 192 1, three Soviet socialist republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia were established in Transcaucasia. Independent Soviet republics gradually established military, economic and diplomatic alliances. By 1922, the conditions were ripe for the establishment of a multi-ethnic unified Soviet state. 654381October 6, the Central Plenary Session of the Communist Party of Russia adopted a resolution on Lenin's proposal to voluntarily and equally unify all Soviet republics into one country.
1922 12.30, 22 14 Representatives from all over the country gathered at the Moscow Grand Theatre to hold the first Soviet Congress of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and adopted the Declaration on the Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Union Treaty, thus declaring the formal establishment of the Soviet Union. At that time, the Soviet Union had four republics: the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and the South Caucasus Federation. The South Caucasus Federation is a country composed of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
1922 after the founding of the Soviet union, some new Soviet socialist republics joined one after another. 1924, the borders of central Asia were re-divided according to ethnic groups, the republics of Bukhara and Khorezm and the autonomous Republic of Turkistan under the Russian Federation were abolished, and two Soviet socialist republics of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were established, and they joined the Soviet Union in 1925. 1929, the tajik autonomous Republic under Uzbekistan was transformed into a Soviet socialist Republic and formally joined the Soviet union in 193 1.
According to the conditions stipulated in 1936 Soviet Constitution, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, two autonomous republics belonging to the Russian Federation, and Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, which belong to the South Caucasus Federation, were all transformed into Soviet republics in 1936. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union formed the "East Line" and pushed its western border westward by 200-300 kilometers, forming five Soviet socialist republics, namely Karelia-Finland, Moldavia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and joined the Soviet Union. 1956, the Republic of Karelia-Finland was changed to the Autonomous Republic of the Russian Federation. Therefore, the Soviet Union was established and developed into a country with 15 participating republics.