Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (abbreviated SSR Abkhazia or SSRA) (Russian: ) was a short-lived Soviet republic on the territory of Abkhazia from 31 March 1921 to 19 February 1931. SSR Abkhazia never made the top status of a Union-level republic within the USSR, despite the explicit expression of willingness and intent in its 1925 Constitution (Article 4).It had a special status of a "treaty republic" associated with the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic through which Abkhazia was part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (since 12 March 1922) and thus also part of the Soviet Union (the Transcaucasian SFSR was a Union-level republic of the USSR from 1922 to 1936).