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In October 1921, the Bolshevik [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]] gained control of the peninsula and instituted the [[Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]]. Moscow joined the RSFSR with three other republics to form the [[Soviet Union]] the following year.
After the [[Second World War]] and the subsequent [[deportation of the Crimean Tatars|deportation of all of the indigenous Crimean Tatars]] by the Soviet regime, the Crimean ASSR was stripped of its autonomy in 1946 and downgraded to the [[Crimean Oblast|status]] of an [[oblasts of Russia|oblast]] of the Russian SFSR. In 1954, the Crimean Oblast was [[1954 transfer of Crimea|transferred]] from the [[Russian SFSR]] to the [[Ukrainian SSR]] by decree of the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]] of the [[Soviet Union]] to commemorate the 300th anniversary of [[Treaty of Pereyaslav|Ukraine's union with Russia]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Ragozin|first=Leonid|title=Annexation of Crimea: A masterclass in political manipulation|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/annexation-crimea-masterclass-political-manipulation-190315174459207.html|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=16 March 2019 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18287223 Crimea profile – Overview] BBC News. Retrieved 30 December 2015</ref> In 1989, under [[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]]'s [[perestroika]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=29 March 2022 |title=gorbachev-perestroika |url=https://www.uawarexplained.com/gorbachev-perestroika/?version=sixty-minutes |access-date=29 March 2022 |website=UaWaExplained.com |language=en}}</ref> the Supreme Soviet declared that the deportation of the [[Crimean Tatars]] under [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] had been illegal<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.alexanderyakovlev.org/fond/issues-doc/67942|year=1989|language=ru|script-title=ru:Декларация Верховного Совета СССР "О признании незаконными и преступными репрессивных актов против народов, подвергшихся насильственному переселению, и обеспечении их прав"|trans-title=Declaration of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the recognition of illegal and criminal acts of repression against peoples subjected to forced resettlement, and ensuring their rights"|work=www.alexanderyakovlev.org}}</ref> and the mostly [[Islam|Muslim]] ethnic group was allowed to return to Crimea.<ref>"The Crimean Tatars began repatriating on a massive scale beginning in the late 1980s and continuing into the early 1990s. The population of Crimean Tatars in Crimea rapidly reached 250,000 and leveled off at 270,000 where it remains as of this writing [2001]. There are believed to be between 30,000 and 100,000 remaining in places of former exile in Central Asia." Greta Lynn Uehling, ''The Crimean Tatars'' (Encyclopedia of the Minorities, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn) [http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/krimtatars.html iccrimea.org]</ref>
In 1990, the [[Soviet (council)|Soviet]] of the Crimean Oblast proposed the restoration of the Crimean ASSR.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://sevkrimrus.narod.ru/ZAKON/1990obl.htm|script-title=ru:ДЕКЛАРАЦИЯ О ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОМ И ПРАВОВОМ СТАТУСЕ КРЫМА|trans-title=DECLARATION ON THE STATE AND LEGAL STATUS OF CRIMEA|year = 1990|language = ru }}</ref> The oblast conducted a [[1991 Crimean sovereignty referendum|referendum]] in 1991, which asked whether Crimea should be elevated into a signatory of the [[New Union Treaty]] (that is, become a [[Republics of the Soviet Union|union republic]] on its own). By that time, though, the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] was well underway. The Crimean ASSR was restored for less than a year as part of [[Soviet Ukraine]] before [[1991 Ukrainian independence referendum|Ukrainian independence]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=29 March 2022 |title=Dukrainian-independence-referendum|url=https://www.uawarexplained.com/ukrainian-independence-referendum/?version=sixty-minutes/ |access-date=29 March 2022 |website=UaWarExplained|language=en}}</ref> Newly independent Ukraine maintained Crimea's [[Autonomous Republic of Crimea|autonomous status]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1213а-12|title=Про внесення змін і доповнень до Конституції... від 19 June 1991 № 1213а-XII|trans-title=On Amendments to the Constitution ... of 19 June 1991 № 1213a-XII |date=19 June 1991|language=uk}}</ref> while the [[Supreme Council of Crimea]] affirmed the peninsula's "sovereignty" as a part of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/krym/show/rb001d002-91|author=Parliament of Ukraine|date=17 November 1994|publisher=Government of Ukraine|language=ru|script-title=ru:Декларация о государственном суверенитете Крыма|trans-title=Declaration on State Sovereignty of Crimea|access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/krym/show/rb0019002-92|author=Parliament of Ukraine|date=20 October 1999|publisher=Government of Ukraine|language=ru|script-title=ru:О Республике Крым как официальном названии демократического государства Крым|trans-title=On the Republic of Crimea as the official name of the democratic state of Crimea|access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref> Ukrainian authorities limited Crimean autonomy in 1995.<ref>[http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/171/94-%D0%B2%D1%80 Про внесення змін і доповнень до Конституції (Основного Закону) України. Верховна Рада України; Закон від 21 September 1994 № 171/94-ВР] {{in lang|uk}} (On Amendments to the Constitution (Basic Law) of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; Law of 21 September 1994 № 171/94-VR)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/92/95-вр|date=18 March 1995|language=uk|script-title=uk:Про скасування Конституції і деяких законів Автономної Республіки Крим Верховна Рада України; Закон від 17 March 1995 № 92/95-ВР|trans-title=On the Abolition of the Constitution and Certain Laws of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; Law of 17 March 1995 № 92/95-VR|work=zakon4.rada.gov.ua }}</ref>{{clarify|please summarize how, if possible|date=April 2022}}}
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