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| | Glossary of Organisations: Un |
 | | The Union was formed by the initiative of the R.S.F.S.R. on December 30, 1922 (ironically the same day Lenin, who was in isolation from government affairs, wrote one of his last letters, on The Question of Nationalities or Autonomisation). |
 | | Five nations joined the union with the R.S.F.S.R. in late 1922 after the 10th Congress of Soviets approved: Ukraine, Byelorussia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia, five years after they had been made independent from the Russian empire by the Russian Soviet government for the first time in their history. |
 | | The governing body of the Soviet Union was the Soviet government, elected by the Congress of Soviets, which in turn was elected by local Soviet's. |
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