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  Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, federation composed of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, which was established as part of the...
The Soviet Union was formed in December 1922 as a federal union of the RSFSR and those neighboring areas under its military occupation or ruled by...
The Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic or the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (abbreviated : Transcaucasian SFSR) (Russian...
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  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - MSN Encarta
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), the original Communist dictatorship, the West’s principal adversary in the post-1945 hostility of the Cold War, and a dominant force in international affairs until its collapse in 1991.
The Soviet Union was formed in December 1922 as a federal union of the RSFSR and those neighboring areas under its military occupation or ruled by branches of the communist movement.
Three-quarters of Soviet territory was in the RSFSR (two-thirds of that in Siberia and the Russian Far East) and 12 percent in Kazakhstan.
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  Transcaucasian Federative Soviet Socialist Republic
The Transcaucasian Federative Soviet Socialist Republic was a short-lived (1922-1936) Soviet republic, consisting of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
The republic's roots date back to the disolution of the Russian Empire in 1917, during the Russian Revolution, when the provinces of the Caucasus seceded and attempted to form their own federal state called the Transcaucasian Federation.
In 1936, the republic was disolved and the three regions became individual republics of the Soviet Union.
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 Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic - MSN Encarta
Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, federation composed of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, which was established as part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 and abolished in 1936.
In April 1920 the government of Azerbaijan was overthrown by an internal revolution and replaced by a soviet republic.
In December 1936 the federation was dissolved, largely because of stress arising from its ethnographic complexity, but the three constituents remained in the Soviet Union as individual republics until 1991, when the USSR collapsed.
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 Transcaucasian SFSR at AllExperts
The Transcaucasian SFSR (also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic or the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) (Закавказская Сове́тская Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, ЗСФСР) was a short-lived (1922â€"1936) Soviet republic, consisting of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, which were traditionally known as the Transcaucasian Republics in the Soviet Union.
The republic's roots date back to the dissolution of the Russian Empire in 1917, during the Russian Revolution, when the provinces of the Caucasus seceded and attempted to form their own federal state called the Transcaucasian Federation.
In 1936, the republic was dissolved and the three countries became the Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijan SSR respectively.
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 Soviet Armenian History - Armeniapedia.org
When the TSFSR was formed, the new Soviet government in the Armenian capital of Erevan ruled over a shrunken country with a devastated economy and few resources with which to feed the populace and rebuild itself.
In a period of twenty-five years, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was industrialized and educated under strictly prescribed conditions, and nationalism was harshly suppressed.
Frustrated by the Azerbaijani blockade and determined to defend their republic and Karabakh, members of Armenia's Fidain (whose name was taken from an Arabic term literally meaning "one who sacrifices himself" and recalling the Armenian freedom fighters of the turn of the century) raided arsenals and police stations to arm themselves for the coming battles.
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 Bambooweb: Transcaucasian Federative Soviet Socialist Republic
The Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic was a short-lived (1922-1936) Soviet republic, consisting of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, which were traditionally known the Transcaucasian Republics in the Soviet Union.
The republic's roots date back to the dissolution of the Russian Empire in 1917, during the Russian Revolution, when the provinces of the Caucasus seceded and attempted to form their own federal state called the Transcaucasian Federation.
In 1936, the republic was dissolved and the three regions became individual republics of the Soviet Union.
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 Soviet history, Soviet Union history, history of the Soviet Union, history of Soviet Union, history Soviet Union on ...
The Soviet Union formally came into being under the treaty of union in December 1922, which was signed by Russia and three other union republics--Belorussia (now Belarus), Ukraine, and what was then the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (an entity including Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia).
The constitution endowed the new republics with sovereignty, although they were said to have voluntarily delegated most of their sovereign powers to the Soviet center.
Russia was the largest of the union republics in terms of territory and population.
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 Karelo Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Current Soviet Policies: The Documentary Record of the 19th Communist Party Congress and the Reorganization after Stalin's Death.
In addition, in the west there are five small republics: the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic with its capital at Petrozavodsk, the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic with its capital at Tallin...
...House of the Finnish Speaking...loparej, karelov i samoedov...Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic...Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic).
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 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) - Encyclopedia.com
It consisted, in its final years, of 15 soviet socialist republics that gained independence at its dissolution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia (now Republic of Georgia), Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, four socialist republics were established on the territory of the former Russian Empire: the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
These four constituent republics established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, to which other republics subsequently were added.
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 GEORGIA
Early in 1921 the Soviet Army invaded Georgia, and a Soviet regime was installed in Tbilisi.
On Dec. 5, 1936, the Transcaucasian republic was dissolved and the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was established.
The capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1921, Tbilisi became the capital of the independent republic of Georgia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
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 Soviet Union (former) Georgians - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
In 1921 the Red Army invaded Georgia in support of a Bolshevik coup there and established it as a Soviet republic; in December 1922 the Georgian Republic entered the union of Soviet republics as part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was established as a union republic of the Soviet Union in 1936.
In 1971 Jews were the only nationality having a greater number of students in higher education institutions, and Georgians had the third highest number of scientific workers relative to their share of the population.
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 Soviet Union - Republic Level
Third, republics were supposed to have the potential to be economically viable states, should they secede from the union.
In 1922 the Soviet Union comprised four republics: the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Republic, the Belorussian Republic, and the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
The Soviet government elevated Turkmenia (also known as Turkmenistan) and Uzbekistan to republic status in 1924, and Tadzhikistan split from the Uzbek Republic in 1929 to form a separate republic.
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 History of Azerbaijan - Azerb.com
The soviet invasion began a seventy-one-year period under total political and economic control of the state that became the Soviet Union in 1922.
Germany managed to push the Soviets eastards and in the summer of 1941 they occupied Grozny in Chechnya and were at the doors of Astrakhan, leaving only a thin corridor along the Caspian to link Azerbaijan with the rest of the USSR.
The Soviet refusal to leave originated was a wave of international protest and the case reached to the UN Security Council.
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The socialist Hënchak ("Bell") party was founded in 1887 and the more nationalist Dashnaktsutyun ("Confederacy") party, whose members were commonly called Dashnaks, in 1890, and in the face of increasing Armenian demands for much-needed reforms both the Turkish and Russian governments grew more repressive.
The 71 years of Soviet rule in Armenia were a period of relative security from hostile neighbours, of great economic development, and of cultural and educational achievements.
Particularly harsh were the years of Stalin's rule (1928-53), during which state terror was used to suppress the political and intellectual elite in the republic, to crush peasant resistance to the collectivization of agriculture, and to destroy the influence of the church.
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 Georgia
When the Transcaucasian SFSR was dissolved in 1936, Georgia was made a constituent republic, or Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), of the Soviet Union.
In 1990 South Ossetia declared itself a sovereign republic and expressed its desire to be joined with the republic of Alania (North Ossetia), in the Russian Federation.
The presidency was abolished, and Eduard Shevardnadze, former Soviet minister of foreign affairs, was chosen to lead the country as acting chairman of the State Council.
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 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA : Encyclopedia Entry
Under heavy pressure from the combined forces of the Ottoman army and the Kurdish irregulars, the Republic was forced to withdraw from Erzincan to Erzurum.
The borders drawn for the Republic on the treaty reflected the efforts given by Armenians upon the defeat of the Ottoman Empire on the Caucasus Campaign.
The establishment of law was a problem: Armenians had the most organized structure in their homeland; however, it was undeniable that several other ethnic groups had been settled for many centuries in these lands (Kurds and Azeri’s were the major ones).
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republic in the Transcaucasia region of western Asia, bordered by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east, and Turkey on the west and south.
Armenians constitute more than 90 percent of the republic's population, a proportion that increased considerably in recent years with the departure of Azeris and the influx of Armenian refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh territory of Azerbaijan, because of the conflict in that region.
Under Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, Armenians took advantage of the policy of glasnost' (Russian for "openness") to publicly decry the state of the environment and rally for the annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.
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 About Armenia - Armenia Factbook - Armenian People Economy Geography History Population Government Communications ...
The three republics of Transcaucasia - Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia - were included in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s after their inhabitants had passed through long and varied periods as separate nations and as parts of neighboring empires, most recently the Russian Empire.
By the time the Soviet Union dissolved at the end of 1991, the three republics had regained their independence, but their economic weakness and the turmoil surrounding them jeopardized that independence almost immediately.
As part of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991, they underwent approximately the same degree of economic and political regimentation as the other constituent republics of the union (until 1936 the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic included all three countries).
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 Armenia  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Armenia (country), republic in western Asia, bordered by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east and the Azerbaijani exclave of Naxçývan (Nakhichevan’) on the southwest, Iran on the south, and Turkey on the west.
Azerbaijanis were the largest minority group during the Soviet period, but in the early 1990s nearly the entire Azerbaijani population fled or was forcibly deported from Armenia because of ethnic tension brought on by a secessionist conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited predominantly by Armenians in western Azerbaijan.
In December the Transcaucasian SFSR became one of the four original republics of the Bolsheviks’ new state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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The city is the capital of the federated United Arab Emirates.
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It was joined with Armenia and Azerbaijan to form the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic from 1922 to 1936, when it became a separate republic,...
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 RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: S :: Soviet Union
The USSR consisted, in its final years, of 15 soviet socialist republics that gained independence at its dissolution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
These four constituent republics established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, to which other republics were added over the years.
In the mid-1980s Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev instituted liberal policies of glasnost and perestroika.
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 Armenia (historical region) - MSN Encarta
A settlement was finally reached in 1921, by which the republic of Armenia ceded about half its Caucasian lands to the Turks.
In 1922 the Armenian republic joined with the Soviet Socialist republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia to form the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (SFSR), which became one of the four original republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
In 1990 the Supreme Soviet of Armenia declared the country a sovereign republic and elected Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leader of the Armenian National Movement, as its president.
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 Azerbaijan - Within the Soviet Union
The invasion of 1920 began a seventy-one-year period under total political and economic control of the state that became the Soviet Union in 1922.
In late 1921, the Russian leadership dictated the creation of a Transcaucasian federated republic, composed of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, which in 1922 became part of the newly proclaimed Soviet Union as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (TSFSR).
The existence of an Azerbaijani majority population in northern Iran became a pretext for Soviet expansion.
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