Soviet administrative reform

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The Soviet administrative reform was a series of structural changes implemented by the Soviet government to reorganize and centralize territorial-administrative divisions across the former Russian Empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative reform
government reform
policy of the Soviet Union
affectedEntity Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
Central Asian Soviet republics
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR

Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
linked to: Soviet Ukraine
appliesToTerritory former Russian Empire
component abolition or merger of pre-revolutionary guberniyas
creation of autonomous oblasts
creation of autonomous republics
creation of krais
creation of national-territorial units for ethnic minorities
creation of oblasts
creation of okrugs
creation of union republics
introduction of raions as basic administrative units
redrawing of internal borders
reduction of number of small uyezds and volosts
transfer of territories between republics
country Soviet Union
field public administration
territorial organization of the state
goal centralization of state power
integration of non-Russian regions into Soviet state structure
reorganization of territorial-administrative divisions
standardization of administrative units
strengthening control of the Communist Party over regions
ideologicalContext Leninist nationalities policy
Stalinist centralization
implementedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Council of People’s Commissars
Soviet government
legalBasis Constitution of the USSR of 1924
Constitution of the USSR of 1936
decrees of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
decrees of the All-Union Central Executive Committee
motivation ideological aim to build a socialist state
legacy of tsarist administrative system
need to consolidate Bolshevik power after the Russian Civil War
result alignment of administrative borders with Soviet nationalities policy
increased control of central authorities over local governance
more centralized administrative hierarchy
replacement of imperial-era administrative units
significantPeriod 1920s
1930s
post-World War II period
startTime 1918

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Vitebsk Governorate abolishedBy Soviet administrative reform
Soviet occupation of Tbilisi followedBy Sovietization of Georgian institutions
linked to: Soviet administrative reform
Kalyazinsky Uyezd dissolvedIn Soviet administrative reform
Yelisavetgrad Uyezd dissolvedBy Soviet administrative reform
Uyezds of Tula Governorate abolishedIn Soviet administrative reforms
linked to: Soviet administrative reform
Pskov Governorate dissolutionContext Soviet administrative reform