Friday, March 12, 2010

Russian Studies Trivia Question 4

1922 was the year when the Soviet Union was officially founded. At that time, how many republics did it comprise?

a. 4
b. 6
c. 15
d. 11

The answer is A, 4!

Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) began with the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Transcaucasian Soviet republics. It grew to contain 15 constituent or "union republics" by 1956: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR and Uzbek SSR. From annexation of the Estonian SSR on August 6, 1940 up to the reorganization of the Karelo-Finnish SSR into the Karelian ASSR on July 16, 1956, the count of union republics numbered 16.

Stay curious,
Team ARC

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