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The new Soviet republic initially consisted of seven districts: Baranovichi, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Mogilev and Smolensk. On 30 January, the republic announced its separation from the Russian SFSR and renaming as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia (SSRB). This was conferred by the First Congress of deputies, composed of workers ...
The republic was re-established under the same name on 31 July 1920. However, in traditional Soviet historiography it has been referred to as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR), its name after the incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1922.
Under the rule of Pyotr Masherov, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic had evolved rapidly from agrarianism into industrialism. By 1991, Belarus was producing goods such as tractors, automobiles and computers. However, the economic downturn faced by the Soviet Union meant that there was a decreased demand for such goods, causing massive ...
Belarus & allies Belarus's opposition Result World War I/Russian Civil War (1918) Belarusian People's Republic Germany: Bolsheviks Russian SFSR; Belarusian People's Republic exiled Slutsk uprising (1920) Nationalist forces loyal to the Belarusian People's Republic Russian SFSR Byelorussian SSR: Rebellion suppressed Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921)
The Soviet and Belarusian historiographies study the subject of German occupation in the context of contemporary Belarus, regarded as the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR), a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in the 1941 borders as a whole.
It was important in creating the Byelorussian Soviet Republic in January 1919. From February 1919 until 1920 it functioned as a single organisation together with the Communist Party of Lithuania, known as the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Lithuania and Belorussia. [1] [2] It was renamed to the Communist Party of Byelorussia in 1952. [3]
The parliament of the republic proclaimed the sovereignty of Belarus on 27 July 1990, and during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus gained independence on 25 August 1991. Following the adoption of a new constitution in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko was elected Belarus's first president in the country's first and only free election after ...
The Supreme Soviet of Belarus was succeeded by the National Assembly of Belarus in 1996. [ 2 ] Until Gorbachev's democratization program , the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR was a rubber stamp like all other supreme soviets of the union republics of the Soviet Union , existing only to provide legal sanction for policies already ...