Why Were The Five Year Plans Centralized Around The Moscow Economic District?

[Cleansing Conspiratorial Revolutionary Flame]

As opposed to being centralized around the Soviet Republics that had made up the USSR?

As well, why had the leadership of the CPSU been centralized around the Russian Soviet Republic as opposed to being made up of the individual Soviet Republics and having each Soviet Republic represent themselves on an international level.

[Nofuture]

Monitoring this thread..I want to know this as well.

[Marxach-Léinínach]

As opposed to being centralized around the Soviet Republics that had made up the USSR?

As well, why had the leadership of the CPSU been centralized around the Russian Soviet Republic as opposed to being made up of the individual Soviet Republics and having each Soviet Republic represent themselves on an international level.

It goes back to Lenin and the old Bolsheviks. The lines they took on Central Asia ie. "they were backward and had to be shown the way forward by Russians" helped sow the seeds for the USSR to be a Russian dominated state. Then there's the fact that the USSR arose out of the former Russian empire in the first place so it was probably inevitable to some extent.