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Several different governments controlled the Crimean Peninsula during the period of the Soviet Union, from the 1920s to 1991.The government of Crimea from 1921 to 1936 was the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, [c] which was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR); the name was altered slightly to the Crimean Autonomous ...
London Geographical Institute's 1919 map of Europe showing Crimea Stalin on board the "Red Ukraine" warship, Crimean coast near the village of Mukhalatka, 1929. Crimea became part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 18 October 1921 as the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. [27]
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Crimean Tatars began to return to the region. [123] According to the 2001 Ukrainian population census, 60% of the population of Crimea are ethnic Russians and 24% are ethnic Ukrainians. [122] Jews in Crimea were historically Krymchaks and Karaites (the latter a small group centered at Yevpatoria). The 1879 ...
Geopolitics of Eastern Europe and West Asia in 2024, showing the frozen conflict zones of Transnistria, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Donbas (numbered 1–5), as well as Northern Cyprus (lighter region within Cyprus). The Gaza Strip, Israel, Kosovo, and the West Bank also appear on the map, although they are not highlighted. Frozen ...
[5] [6] On 1 June, the Crimean SSR joined in military union with soviet republics in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, and Latvia. [6] The republic was declared to be a non-national entity based on the equality of all nationalities. [5] Nationalization of industry and confiscation of the land of landlords, kulaks, and the church were ...
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states.
Following Soviet victory in the Civil War and establishment of the new Soviet administrative units, Crimea was granted Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic status in 1921 as part of the Soviet korenizatsiia policy for Crimean Tatars. It was meant to grant a degree of autonomy for national minorities within much larger Soviet republics. [1]
File:European Russia laea location map (Crimea disputed).svg by NordNordWest Highlighting Udmurtia by Piroska This vector image was created with Inkscape , and then manually edited