Soviet Russia (1917-1923) and early flags of Russia in the Soviet Union (1923-1954)

Last modified: 2005-05-13 by antónio martins
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• Presentation
• Red flag with modern script
• Red flag with ancient script
• Flags of the 1918 constitution
• State Coat-of-arms of 1918
• Merchant Flag of 1920
• Flag of 1937

See also:

• Soviet Union
• Russia in the Soviet Union (later flags)
• Naval flags of Soviet Russia (1917-1924)
• Russia

Presentation

These are the flags of (post-revolutionary) Russia, used from 1918 to 1954. Naturally, once the Soviet Union was formed, in 1922, these flags stand for a part of it, not for an independent Russia. (But of course the federal character of the Soviet Union was largely fictional: Thatʼs another story but the flags, even so, reflected this.) The name RSFSR did not change both before and after the set up of the Soviet Union.
António Martins, 15 Jan 2000

Red flag with modern script (1918.04)

Cyrillic letters in one row in canton (I saw it