Central Asian delimitation creates Uzbek and Turkmen Soviet republics

The plenary of the Bukhara Communist Party endorsed national-territorial delimitation, part of a sequence of regional party decisions that preceded the reorganization of Soviet Central Asia. Local...

The first Party Congress after Lenin’s death opened amid a leadership struggle and debates over party growth, discipline and economic policy. The meeting marked a transition in party leadership and...

The Sino-Soviet agreement restored diplomatic relations and declared that tsarist-era treaties affecting Chinese sovereignty would be reviewed or annulled. It addressed the Chinese Eastern Railway and...

The Politburo approved a plan to redraw Central Asia’s administrative map around designated national republics and autonomous regions. The plan proposed Uzbek and Turkmen republics and a...

An armed uprising began in Georgia against Soviet rule, drawing on opposition to the loss of independence, coercive state policy and restrictions on political life. Soviet security forces crushed...

The First State Great Khural proclaimed the Mongolian People’s Republic and adopted its first constitution, abolishing the monarchy after the Bogd Khan’s death. Mongolia was not a Soviet republic, but...

The USSR and Japan signed the Basic Convention establishing diplomatic relations and agreeing on the evacuation of Japanese troops from northern Sakhalin. The settlement restored Soviet sovereignty...

The first volume of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia appeared, part of a project to organize knowledge and define a new socialist account of society and history. The encyclopedia reflected real expansion...

The Tajik ASSR was formally proclaimed within the Uzbek SSR after national delimitation assigned Tajik-majority areas to an autonomous unit inside a larger Uzbek republic. The new institution gave...

The Fourteenth Party Conference debated the pace of industrial development and the prospects for building socialism within the USSR. Stalin and his allies argued that socialism could be built in one...