Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR). A territory that was part of a Union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was settled by a national minority and had Soviet autonomy (mainly the right to use the minority language). Within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic the Moldavian ASSR was such a republic in 1924–40, and within the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic the Crimean ASSR was such a republic in 1920–46. There was an autonomous republic on the Ukrainian ethnic border in Subcaucasia—the Kabardino-Balkar ASSR.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]

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1 All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee 2 Alushta 3 Autonomous soviet socialist republics 4 Autonomy 5 Bakhchysarai 6 Crimea 7 Jews 8 Lisovy, Vasyl 9 Mordovia 10 Parkhomenko, Mykola 11 Sevastopol 12 Simferopol 13 Strokata, Nina 14 Sulyma, Mykola 15 Volga German ASSR 16 Yevpatoriia

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