Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Crimean ASSR
Qrьm ASSR
Крымская АССР
ASSR of the Russian SFSR (1921-1942), (1943-1945)
ASSR of the Ukrainian SSR/Ukraine (1991-1992)

 

 

1921–1942
1943–1945
1991–1992

 

 

Flag Coat of arms
Capital Simferopol
Government Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
History
  Established October 18, 1921
  Became Crimean Oblast June 30, 1945
  Re-established February 12, 1991
  Disestablished 6 May 1992
Today part of

Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Modern Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Sotsialist Sovet Cumhuriyeti; Official Crimean Tatar name in the Uniform Turkic Alphabet: Qrьm Avonomjalь Sotsialist Sovet Respublikasь; Russian: Крымская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика Krymskaya Avtonomnaya Socialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika) was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Russian SFSR located in the Crimean Peninsula.

History

It was created on October 18, 1922 as the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of the Russian SFSR. It was renamed the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on December 5, 1936 by the VIII Extraordinary Congress of Soviets of the USSR.[1]

Crimea was under de facto control of Nazi Germany from September 1942 to October 1943, administratively incorporated into Reichskommissariat Ukraine as Teilbezirk Taurien. Alfred Frauenfeld was appointed as General Commissar (although it seems that Frauenfeld spent most of his time in Crimea researching the peninsula's Gothic heritage and the actual government was in the hands of Erich von Manstein).[2]

In 1944, under the pretext[3] of alleged collaboration of the Crimean Tatars with the Nazi occupation regime, the Soviet government on orders of Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria deported the Crimean Tatar people from Crimea.[4]

Actual collaboration in the military sense had been rather limited, with a recorded 9,225 Crimean Tatars serving in anti-Soviet Tatar Legions and other German formed battalions,[5] but there was in fact a surprisingly high degree of co-operation between the occupation government and the local administration; this has been significantly due to Frauenfeld's unwillingness to implement the policy of brutality towards the local population pursued by Reichskommissar Erich Koch, which led to a series of public conflict between the two men.[6] The constitutional rights of the forcibly-resettled Tatars were restored with a decree dated September 5, 1967, but they were not allowed to return until the last days of the Soviet Union.[7]

The Crimean ASSR was converted into the Crimean Oblast of the RSFSR on June 30, 1945 by the decree of the both presidiums of the Supreme Soviet of USSR and the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR (published on May 26, 1946), and the Crimean Oblast was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954.[8]

The ASSR was re-established on February 12, 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR following a referendum held on January 20, 1991,[9] and it became the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, part of the newly independent state of Ukraine, effective May 6, 1992.

Administrative divisions

With the establishment of autonomous republic it was divided into seven okrugs from 1921 to 1923.

Leaders of Republican Council

Russian SFSR

Central Executive Committee
Supreme Soviet

Ukrainian SSR/Ukraine

Heads of Government

Chairmen of Revkom

Council of People's Commissars

Council of Ministers

Principal Chekists

Cheka
Crimea GPU
Merged GPU
OGPU
Narkom of State Security

See also

References

  1. Handbook of history of Communist Party and Soviet Union
  2. Alan W. Fisher, The Crimean Tatars, 1978, p. 156
  3. line Encyclopedia of Mass Violence. "Sürgün: The Crimean Tatars' deportation and exile – Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence". Massviolence.org. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  4. Subtelny, Orest (2000). Ukraine: A History. University of Toronto Press. p. 483. ISBN 0-8020-8390-0.
  5. Document reproduced in T.S. Kulbaev and A. Iu. Khegai, Deportatsiia (Almaty: Deneker, 2000), pp. 206–207.
  6. Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 137.
  7. http://www.iccrimea.org/surgun/sovietdecree1967.html
  8. "The Transfer of Crimea to Ukraine". International Committee for Crimea. July 2005. Retrieved March 25, 2007.
  9. "Day in history – 20 January". RIA Novosti (in Russian). January 8, 2006. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 6, 2007.
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