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On December 3rd, the winter palace was surrounded by a bread riot that swept through Moscow, and after 6 hours of rioting, the protestors stormed the Winter Palace. The nobility left the previous day to St. Petersburg (but upon hearing of the storming of the palace, left for Britain). After two days of further agitation and the breakdown of imperial civil control in Russia, the Russian Republican Congress declared the first Russian Republic and the end of imperial rule. After a week of tension with the new government, the imperial military reluctantly agreed to back the new government.
For the first month of its existence, the new Republic was stuck in a deadlock between the two major factions in government, the liberal republicans and the nationalist republicans (more commonly known as the Vosstanists (from Russian восстановление, vosstanovlenie) . Additionally, after the Tsar fled, many non-Russian regions of the empire declared independence, while the Russian military acted mostly autonomously from the Republics congress. In February of 1926, after the first wave of elections was marred with controversy. The
==== Russian Civil War ====
The Russian Republican Congress reacted harshly to the National Congresses declaration and raised militias from loyalist cities and regions. By March of 1926, the Liberal Russian Republic relied only on a decentralized system of militias with dubious loyalties and often recruited from rebellious national interest groups who feared that the
In contrast, the
By the winter of 1927, the Liberals realized their plight was doomed and so used their resources to provide an exodus route for the leaders, military, and businesspeople of the ill-fated republic. By February of 1928, there were only pockets of isolated fighting as the
=== Russian National Union ===
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==== Reforming the State ====
===== Autonomous National Republics and Sister Republics =====
==== Russo-Corean War ====▼
As part of the reforms of the new Russian National Republic, the Vosstanists set up two new administrative classifications for the former Imperial Russian territories.
# '''Autonomous National Republics (ANRs)''': ANRs are semi-autonomous nationalist republics modeled after the Russian National Republic. ANRs were not sovereign and independent nations, and therefore had no international representation and recognition, and was instead part of the Russian National Republic. Examples of ANRs are Circassia and Transcaucasia.
# '''Sister Republics (SRs)''': Sister republics were nominally independent and sovereign states. They had their own government modeled after the Russian National Republic. However, unlike ANRs, they were not politically bound to the Russian National Republic. Most of the SRs created maintained close economic, military, and diplomatic ties with the Russian Nationalist Government. Examples of SRs include the Ainu National Republic, Kazaqstan, Tadjikistan.
Outside of the former Russian Empire's territories, the definition of a "Sister Republic" was loosely defined. Some states that describe themselves as Nationalist-Republican consider themselves as sister republics of Russia, while others refrained the use of the term as it implies Russian suzerainty.
===== Conflict in Central Asia =====
Pan-Turkic ideas had already proliferated in Central Asia since the dawn of the 20th century. However, with the Russian Empire faltering and support from the Ottoman Empire and Serindia, the self-proclaimed Republic of Turkestan declared its independence from Russia in the 1924. Both the Vosstanists and the Liberals fought against Turkestan, and even when the civil war had already ended in 1928, the victorious Vosstanists were still unable to subdue the rebellion. The Vosstanists attempted to negotiate with the Turkic rebels, but they refused to cooperate. This forced the new Russian National Republican government to launch a large-scale war against Turkestan in 1930. This was briefly interrupted during the Russo-Corean War in 1932-1936 and resumed in 1937. During the period of peace, infighting between the leaders of Turkestan finally made it susceptible to Russian diplomatic strong-arming. By 1938, Russia negotiated with the various leaders of the rebellion separately. In the Treaty of Almaty (1938), peace was made in Central Asia; five nominally independent sister republics were created under the auspices of the Russians: Kirghizstan, Kazaqstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
▲==== Russo-Corean War (1932-1936) ====
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