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Wed 28 Feb, 2007 09:57 pm
I don't understand the Russian territorial system. Please correct me if I'm wrong:
The Soviet Union pre-1991 was a bunch of republics?
The republics had their own "independence" and whatnot but the Soviet dictator really had the last say?
Gorbachev was "dictator" and Yeltsin was president of a russian republic?
Yeltsin's republic got to be powerful and Yeltsin eventually took over for Gorbachev?
Yeltsin then created the CIS and all of Russia's satellite countries left the USSR and Russia is now one country now? Or are the republics still in place?
Wikipedia [link] has a good summarising report of that.
Dictator [link]
You could also look again at the answer I gave
in your previous thread...
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