Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

The collection is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary since the signing of the Declaration and Treaty on the Creation of the USSR (). The collection includes documents and materials about the formation of the USSR, archival materials containing information about the First All-Union Congress of Soviets and the process of forming the all-Union legislation and new authorities, as well as newsreels, dedicated to the signing of the Declaration and Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the formation of new Union republics in the 1920s-1930s.

Materials from the holdings of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the State Public Historical Library, the State Socio-Political Library of Russia, the Central Naval Library, the Belgorod State Universal Research Library and the Presidential Library were used in preparing the collection.