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Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic

The Soviet union republic created on 31 March 1940 by merging the Karelian ASSR with most of the territory Finland ceded after the Winter War — a full union republic, transparently built as a shell for a future Soviet Finland.

Demoted back into the RSFSR as the Karelian ASSR on 16 July 1956.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic — the shape you scrub through changes in 1940 · 1944.

Further reading

• Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920-1939 Nick Baron · 2007

  Verified scholarly history of Soviet Karelia, the region that became the KFSSR. (Open Library verified: Nick Baron, 2007/2009)

• A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40 William R. Trotter · 1991

  Verified standard English history of the Winter War whose settlement created the republic. (Open Library verified: Trotter, 1991)

Sources

• Wikipedia: Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Q186888)