The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) was the largest of the Soviet republics, existing from 9 November 1917 to 25 December 1991. The RSFSR was established following the Russian Revolution, and it became the dominant Soviet republic, with the Soviet capital of Moscow being located in the RSFSR. Under Joseph Stalin, the republic was rapidly industrialized, and it became the world's third-largest petroleum producer by 1961. The late 1970s saw the economy stagnate, but Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms led to economic change, which was not always beneficial; many enterprises fell, and the USSR was unstable by 1990. On 8 December 1991, the heads of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus signed a treaty which dissolved the USSR, and the RSFSR's name was changed to the "Russian Federation" on 25 December 1991 by the Russian head of state Boris Yeltsin. On 12 December 1993, Russia drafted a new constitution.
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