Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Treaty of Creation of the USSR is a document that legalized the creation of a union of several Soviet republics in the form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was signed on December 29 1922 at a conference of the representatives elected at the Congresses of Soviets of the RSFSR, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, and the Byelorussian and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics.
The conference also issued the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, which may be considered a political preamble to the Treaty.
The Treaty was confirmed on December 30, 1922 by the 1st Congress of Soviets of the USSR.
Successive republics were formed by separate ammenmends to the treaty.
The first such examples were the Uzbek and Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republics, which on the 27th October 1924 secceded from Turkestanian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Following this the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was deprived of the Tadzhik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on the 5th of December 1929 which in turn became the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic.
The Tanscaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic existed until the 5th of December 1936 when it was broken into Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republics.
The same day Turkestanian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ceased to exist, and its territory was devided between the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics were created.
On the 31st of March 1940, the Karellian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was elavated into the Karello-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.
In prelude to the Great Patriotic War, during the expansion of the USSR new republics were created on new territories like the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic which on th 2nd of August 1940 was created from parts of Bessarabia (annexed from Romania) and the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Similar developments took place in the Baltic when the countries entered the Soviet Union as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (21st June 1940), Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (3rd August 1940) and the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (5th August 1940).
After the Great Patriotic War, no new republics were established, instead the Karello-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was re-annexed by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic as the Karellian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
On the 8th of December 1991 the leaders of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic met to agree on the termination of the 1922 treaty, when it came into effect on the 25th of December 1991, effectively the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceased to exist.
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