The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics of the Soviet Union were administrative units that report directly to the Government of the Soviet Union.[1] The Soviet Union was a highly centralized state.
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Soviet socialist republic |
member since |
population (1989) |
pop./ USSR pop. (%) |
area (km²) (1991) |
area/ USSR area (%) |
capital |
independent state |
No. | |||||||
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1922 | 147,386,000 | 51.40 | 17,075,400 | 76.62 | Moscow | ![]() |
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1922 | 51,706,746 | 18.03 | 603,700 | 2.71 | Kiev (Kharkov before 1934) |
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1924 | 19,906,000 | 6.94 | 447,400 | 2.01 | Tashkent (Samarkand before 1930) |
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1936 | 16,711,900 | 5.83 | 2,727,300 | 12.24 | Alma-Ata | ![]() |
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1922 | 10,151,806 | 3.54 | 207,600 | 0.93 | Minsk | ![]() |
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1936 | 7,037,900 | 2.45 | 86,600 | 0.39 | Baku | ![]() |
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1936 | 5,400,841 | 1.88 | 69,700 | 0.31 | Tbilisi | ![]() |
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1929 | 5,112,000 | 1.78 | 143,100 | 0.64 | Dushanbe | ![]() |
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1940 | 4,337,600 | 1.51 | 33,843 | 0.15 | Kishinev | ![]() |
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1936 | 4,257,800 | 1.48 | 198,500 | 0.89 | Frunze | ![]() |
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1940 | 3,689,779 | 1.29 | 65,200 | 0.29 | Vilnius | ![]() |
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1924 | 3,522,700 | 1.23 | 488,100 | 2.19 | Ashkhabad | ![]() |
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1936 | 3,287,700 | 1.15 | 29,800 | 0.13 | Yerevan | ![]() |
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1940 | 2,666,567 | 0.93 | 64,589 | 0.29 | Riga | ![]() |
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1940 | 1,565,662 | 0.55 | 45,226 | 0.20 | Tallinn | ![]() |
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References
change- ↑ Hough, Jerry F (1997). Democratization and revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 0-8157-3749-1.