Soviet Socialist Republics

The treaty creating the union of soviet socialist republics was approved on december thirtieth 19 22, and it created a whole new federal government whose primary functions were indeed centralized in moscow. In practice, very little changed in terms of personnel or policy. Most of the governmental pos tions of the new soviet union were assigned by doling out new titles to the leaders of so viet russia. So while lenin and the russian communist took great pains to make this all legally a union of co equals, the russians would always be like augustus, the first among equals in declaring their new union to the world.