The
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (
Russian ?????´????? ????´????? ????????´???? ??????????´?????? ?????´????? [?????],
transliterated as
Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika [RSFSR]), also called the
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the
Russian SFSR and the
RSFSR for short, was the largest and most populous of the fifteen
Soviet republics of the
Soviet Union and became the
Russian Federation after the collapse of the
Soviet Union. It was by far the largest
sub-national entity in the world by area and 2
nd in population after the
Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh. The capital was
Moscow, also the capital of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet regime was established on November 7, 1917, following the October Revolution. In Russian official documents of the time it was referred to as Russian Republic, Soviet Republic (Russian ????????? ??????????), or Russian Soviet Republic, among others.[citation needed] On July 10, 1918 the 1918 Constitution was adopted, with the official name of Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic; the most recent variant of the name (with "Socialist" and "Soviet" swapped), was adopted in the 1937 Constitution.[citation needed]
In English, the term Bolshevist Russia or Soviet Russia is commonly used for the period 1917–1922.
Opponents of Bolsheviks also used the derogatory term Sovdepia or Sovdepiya (Russian ????????) [1] It is a contraction of the Russian expression, "Sovet Deputatov" (????? ?????????, ??????), "Council of Deputies", which were the governmental authorities at local levels. In other words, "Sovdepia is the land of sovdeps".
