Soviet administrative reform

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administrative reform government reform policy of the Soviet Union

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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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Soviet administrative reform canonical	3
Sovietization of Georgian institutions	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	administrative reform ⓘ government reform ⓘ policy of the Soviet Union ⓘ
affectedEntity	Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Central Asian Soviet republics NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 NERFINISHED ⓘ Stalinist centralization ⓘ
implementedBy	Communist Party of the Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ Council of People’s Commissars NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet government NERFINISHED ⓘ
legalBasis	Constitution of the USSR of 1924 NERFINISHED ⓘ Constitution of the USSR of 1936 NERFINISHED ⓘ decrees of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee ⓘ decrees of the All-Union Central Executive Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vitebsk Governorate → abolishedBy → Soviet administrative reform ⓘ

Soviet occupation of Tbilisi → followedBy → Soviet administrative reform ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sovietization of Georgian institutions

Kalyazinsky Uyezd → dissolvedIn → Soviet administrative reform ⓘ

Yelisavetgrad Uyezd → dissolvedBy → Soviet administrative reform ⓘ