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 | | This constitution also altered the structure of the central government. | | | It established the Congress of Soviets to be the supreme body of state authority, with the Central Executive Committee holding this authority in the interim. | | | The Central Executive Committee also elected the Sovnarkom, which served as the executive arm of the government. |
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| Â | The Soviet Constitution of 1924: an Invitation to World Federalism |
| | The later, 1936 Constitution was Stalinist, and centralised power much further in Moscow; all subsequent Constitutions were also Stalinist, except that Gorbachev was in the process of negotiating a new non-Stalinist Constitution, more Federal i.e. | | | The supreme organ of power of the U.S.S.R. is the Congress of Soviets, and, in the recesses of the Congress of SovietsÑthe Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. which is composed of the Federal Soviet and the Soviet of Nationalities. | | | Between sessions of the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R., the supreme organ of power is the Presidium of the U.S.S.R., constituted by the C.E.C. to the extent of 21 members, including the Presidium of the Federal Soviet and the Presidium of the Soviet ol Nationalities. |
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| | The newly elected Supreme Soviet of the USSR shall be convened by the outgoing Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR within two months of the elections. | | | The Supreme Soviet of a Union Republic shall elect a Presidium, which is a standing body of that Supreme Soviet and accountable to it for all its work. | | | The Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities, upon submission by the credentials commissions elected by them, shall decide on the validity of Deputies' credentials, and, in cases in which the election law has been violated, shall declare the election of the Deputies concerned null and void. |
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| Â | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Timeline: Soviet Union |
| | 1977 - Brezhnev elected president under new constitution. | | | 1990 - Soviet troops sent to Azerbaijan following inter-ethnic killings between Armenians and Azeris; Communist Party votes to end one-party rule; Gorbachev opposes independence of Baltic states and imposes sanctions on Lithuania; Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by the latter's parliament and leaves the Soviet Communist Party. | | | 1991 September - Congress of People's Deputies votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union. |
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| Â | Constitution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On the surface, the four constitutions have resembled many constitutions adopted in the West. | | | Each of the constitutions has called for a system of soviets, or councils, to exercise governmental authority. | | | Soviet constitutions appeared to guarantee certain political rights, such as freedom of speech, |
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| | The highest government legislative body was the Supreme Soviet. | | | Revolutionary activity in Russia began with the Decembrist Revolt, uncovered in 1825, and although serfdom was abolished in 1861, its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries. | | | The Soviet Union became a member of the United Nations at its foundation in 1945. |
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| | The highest legislative body was the Supreme Soviet. | | | One of the first acts of the Communist government was to withdraw from World War I. | | | After the revolution, the party leadership devised a constitution that appeared to recognize the authority of the local Soviets. |
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| | The country was run by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR. | | | The state was founded in 1918 by the 1918 Soviet Constitution. | | | It was made into a part of the Soviet Union in 1922, an act later formalised by the 1924 Soviet Constitution. |
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| | Chapter IX The principal object of the constitution. | | | The first constitution of the new Soviet state--the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic--was adopted by the Congress of Soviets on July 10, 1918. | | | That constitution in turn was replaced by Stalin's Constitution of 1936 which was, like the earlier efforts, a mere façade of the democracy it professed to install. |
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