Impact of the Civil War on National Minorities

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  • All support that the Bolsheviks had shown for national self-determination was abandoned.
  • All independence movements were seen as "counter-revolutionary".
  • In 1922, Stalin as People's Commissar for Nationalities brutally suppressed the independence movement in his native Georgia.
    • This horrified Lenin when he found out Stalin had lied about popular support and that in fact the Bolsheviks had overthrown an independent socialist regime following heavy fighting.
  • The 1922 Constitution established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
    • This was strongly controlled from the centre with each republic government being a branch of the Sovnarkom.