Talk:Russian SFSR

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According to an encyclopedic dictionary I have from the late cold war era, it's entry on this topic begins as;

"Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. formerly Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic"

Would anyone happen to know the date of official change from the name Federated to Federative with cyrillic versions of both, for the disambiguation of reference to the RSFSR in proper context for timeline? Nagelfar 10:32, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

That seems to be a misunderstanding. In Russian, there is no difference between federated and federative. Perhaps only the English name has changed. — Monedula 12:47, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Okay, well the source of this as I've found it was the 'Tormont Webster's Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1987 Houghton Mifflin Company.' Nagelfar 00:58, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Name in Revolutionary times

Bolshevist Russia says:

The official name of the country was the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Strictly speaking, there is a small time gap between the October Revolution and the declaration of the RSFSR (and a still larger gap to its first Constitution, in 1918),...

Soviet Russia says:

Russian SFSR (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic), the Soviet Russian state officially founded in 1918, some months after the October Revolution of 1917

But this article on the Russian SFSR says

In English, the term Bolshevist Russia is commonly used for the period 1917–1922. In Russian official documents of the time it was referred to as Russian Republic (Российская республика) and Soviet Republic (Советская республика).

So what was the official, or commonly-used name before formation of the the USSR? —Michael Z. 2006-10-28 22:28 Z