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 Congress of Soviets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Congress of Soviets was recreated as part of Gorbachev's reforms, via a 1988 amendment to the 1977 Soviet Constitution.
Officially, the Congress of Soviets created laws and elected the Council of People's Commissars, which was the government.
The Congress of Soviets was an assembly of representatives of local councils.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_People's_Deputies   (559 words)

  
 1918 Soviet Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The steering committee of the Congress of Soviets--known as the Central Executive Committee--acted as the "supreme organ of power" between sessions of the congress and as the collective presidency of the state.
The congress recognized the Council of People's Commissars (Sovet narodnykh kommissarov--Sovnarkom) as the administrative arm of the young government and defined its responsibilities as "general administration of the affairs of the state".
This article contains material from the Library of Congress Country Studies which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Soviet_Constitution   (297 words)

  
 Article Three: Organization of the Soviet Power
The All-Russian Congress of Soviets is composed of representatives of urban soviets (one delegate for 25,000 voters), and of representatives of the provincial (gubernia) congresses of soviets (one delegate for 125,000 inhabitants).
In the boundaries of the respective territories the congress is the supreme power; during intervals between the convocations of the congress, the executive committee is the supreme power.
Note 2: In case the regional (oblast) congress is convoked indirectly, previous to the convocation of the All-Russian Congress, delegates for the latter may be sent by the regional congress.
http://www.russiannewsnetwork.com/article3.html   (1706 words)

  
 Soviet system
The Council of Ministers is appointed by the Supreme Soviet...."
This council is defined by the constitution as "the highest executive and administrate organ of the state power of the USSR.' It is accountable to the Supreme Soviet or, in the intervals between sessions of the Supreme Soviet, to the Presidium..
This 1936 constitution, it was claimed, gave the country a democratic form of government, although it was snot democracy as understood in the United Kingdom and the United States.
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/soviets.htm   (2001 words)

  
 Soviets
To ensure that it was not, the local leaders of the "Communist" Party nominated and elected the members of the Soviets to the Congress.
Centeral Executive Committee which is the supreme authority in the intervals between congresses.
A body elected by the Congress of Soviets, the first Central Executive Committee was elected at the first All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd, June 3 - 24, 1917.
http://web.uvic.ca/geru/376/Soviets.htm   (462 words)

  
 Soviet-Empire.com - U.S.S.R. Online: Constitution
The Congress of Soviets is the supreme authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
In the intervals between Congresses the Central Executive Committee is the supreme authority of the Union.
The Congress of Soviets elects the Central Executive Committee.
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/nation/acts/c_0001.php   (2920 words)

  
 Glossary of Events: All-Russian Congress of the Soviet
The Congress voted 543 to 126 (52 abstentions) to support the Provisional government, though the socialist ministers in the Provisional government (SRs and Mensheviks) were told to be obliged to decisions made by the Soviets.
The first convocation of a Congress of Soviets in Russia opened on June 3, 1917 and was attended by some 1,090 delegates (784 with full vote).
The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets met on October 25-26, 1917, at 22:40, in the Smolny Institute.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/a/arcs.htm   (763 words)

  
 Russian Revolution of 1917, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the ...
The Congress of Soviets provided for a governmental structure in which supreme authority was vested in the congress itself.
The decisions of the Congress of Soviets on peace and land evoked widespread support for the new government, and they were decisive in assuring victory to the Bolsheviks in other cities and in the provinces.
With the establishment of the new government, the Congress of Soviets adjourned.
http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/russianrev.html   (4539 words)

  
 Third All-Russia Congress of Soviets
The arrival of the delegates to the Third All-Russia Peasants' Congress was a notable event: the Congress continued its deliberations as a joint Congress of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies.
It was further elaborated at joint sittings of the Congress of land committees and the peasant section of the Third Congress of Soviets.
The Congress approved the basic provisions of the law on the socialisation of land worked out on the basis of the Decree on Land.
http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/TCS18.html   (8143 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky’s Military Writings, Vol. 1, 1918: Revolt of the Left SRs
The Fourth Congress of Sovtets was an extraordinary congress and was held in Moscow between March 14 and 16, 1918.
After the Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviets had categorically approved the foreign policy of the Council of People’s Commissars, a certain Blyumkin, acting on the instructions of the Central Committee of the Left SR party, assassinated the German ambassador, Count Mirbach.
In view of the decision taken yesterday by the All-Russia Congress, approving the foreign policy of the Council of People’s Commissars, the counter-revolutionary plotters resolved to wreck this decision of the Congress.
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/trotsky/works/1918-mil/ch34.htm   (14508 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Glossary
Dominated by Bolshevik delegates the Second Congress of Soviets approved the Bolshevik coup d'état and the decrees on peace and loud issued by Lenin.
Announced at Twenty-Seventh Party Congress in August 1986.
Party congresses, which usually met every five years, were largely ceremonial and legitimizing events at which several thousand "elected" delegates convened to approve new party programs (q.v.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/soviet_union/su_glos.html   (9351 words)

  
 Soviets
The Second Congress of Soviets was convened on 8th November.
That is why we have declared the Konstadt Soviet the supreme authority in the island."
With some little misgiving I passed by the sentries and asked to see the President.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSsoviet.htm   (1491 words)

  
 History of Belarus (Great Litva)
of July, 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR adopted the Declaration on State sovereignty of the BSSR.
The congress made an appeal to all the peoples on recognition of independence of Belarus and establishment of diplomatic relations with it.
of August, 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR suspended the Communist Party of Belarus.
http://www.belarusguide.com/as/history/history.html   (2527 words)

  
 "Critical review #1"
The congress called upon the belligerent countries to conclude an immediate armistice for a period of not less than three months to permit negotiations for peace.
The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets opened in the Smolny at 10:45 p.m.
This ended the labours of the historic Second Congress of Soviets.
http://www.uwm.edu/Course/448-343/index2.html   (3502 words)

  
 William Hard. Raymond Robins' Own Story. 1920. Contents. Chapter Three.
I beg to assure the people of Russia, through the Congress, that the Government of the United States will avail itself of every opportunity to secure for Russia once more complete sovereignty and independence in her own affairs.
The President of the United States, in a message to the Congress of the United States, had just recently said:
Lenin was alluding to the memorandum which he and Trotzky, through Robins and the American ambassador, had sent to Washington, asking Washington what it would specifically do in certain specific circumstances.
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/world_war_I/Robins/Robins3.htm   (7417 words)

  
 SparkNotes: The Russian Revolution (1917–1918): The October Revolution
The Congress delegates were forced to wait for several hours as Bolshevik forces tried to remove the provisional government from the Winter Palace.
The Congress resumed once more late the next evening, and several important decisions were made during this session.
Furthermore, despite the Bolshevik leaders’ efforts, dedicated Bolsheviks constituted only about half of the 650 delegates at the Congress.
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/russianrev/section5.rhtml   (1964 words)

  
 Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, IV
[T]he Bolsheviks opened their counter-Assembly, labeled "Third Congress of Soviets." Here no one could obstruct them because they had reserved for themselves and the Left SRs 94 percent of the seats, more than three times what they were entitled to, judging by the results of the Constituent Assembly.
The night before their hand-picked Second Congress was to meet, on October 24 (old calendar) Leninist cadres forcibly seized control of all the power centers in Petrograd: railroads, mail, phones, banks, bridges.
Unfazed, Trotsky simply opened the Second Congress with the announcement that the Provisional Government had been dismissed.
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/his1d.htm   (705 words)

  
 Perestroika [Sam Marcy]: Article 16 (1990)
This version of the Constitution was adopted at the Seventh (Special) Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Ninth Convocation, on October 7, 1977.
The two chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR shall have equal rights.
Andrew Ezergailis, The Latvian Impact on the Bolshevik Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983).
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sampere/perehtml/16.htm   (3309 words)

  
 Soviet-Empire.com - U.S.S.R. Online: Government
The Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is the supreme law of the land and the government may not pass legislation that is contradictory to it.
The Congress of Soviets (CoS) is the highest governing body in the U.S.S.R. and is made up of representatives from all over the world.
Because the our global Soviet Union's government is a "million times" more democratic than the governments of the corrupt "nation states" of the world today, all citizens are allowed to take part in our government and directly represent themselves rather than electing a politician to represent their interests for them.
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/nation/government/government.php   (526 words)

  
 SparkNotes: The Russian Revolution (1917–1918): The Summer of 1917
Kerensky, for his effectiveness in neutralizing the Bolsheviks, was promoted from minister of war to prime minister.
Arrest warrants were issued for all of the Bolshevik leaders.
Throughout the month of June, the First All-Russia Congress of Soviets was held in Petrograd.
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/russianrev/section4.rhtml   (1419 words)

  
 Essay or Coursework - Was a 2nd revolution necessary in Russia in 1917?
Although Lenin was a popular figure in Russia, the Bolsheviks, Lenin& party, did not hold the majority of seats within the National Congress of Soviets.
The majority of the Russian population became more and more convinced that the Soviets were the basis of a new Russian government whereas the Provisional Government did not appeal to the masses.
In June, the Soviets convened the National Congress of Soviets, which started to challenge the actions of the Provisional Government.
http://www.coursework.info/i/25757.html   (447 words)

  
 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Hexapedia - Soviet law
Categories: Soviet state Legal history Law by country
http://soviet_law.en.hexafind.com   (37 words)

  
 HRNi - Declaration of Rights of the Laboring and Exploited People 1918
The Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies believes that now, during the progress of the decisive battle between the proletariat and its exploiters, the exploiters should not hold a position in any branch of the Soviet Government.
It is also to this end that the Third Congress of Soviets insists upon putting an end to the barbarous policy of the bourgeois civilization which enables the exploiters of a few chosen nations to enslave hundreds of millions of the working population of Asia, of the colonies, and of small countries generally.
The Third Congress of Soviets hails the policy of the Council of People's Commissars in proclaiming the full independence of Finland, in withdrawing troops from Persia, and in proclaiming the right of Armenia to self-determination.
http://www.hrni.org/files/instruments/HRNi_EN_863.html   (424 words)

  
 Soviet-Empire.com Archive :: View topic - How do I get into the Congress of Soviets?
I was wondering how long you have to be a forum member for until you can post in the congress of soviets?
How do I get into the Congress of Soviets?
This archive represents the final 12 of a 30 month experiment in cyber democracy.
http://www.politicsforum.org/soviet/viewtopic.php?t=3968   (196 words)

  
 Socialist Party of Canada - Wallace's Corner
In October, 1917, when the Bolshevik coup d'etat was pronounced before the Second Congress of Soviets, members of a faction, Menshevik-Internationalists led by Julius Martov walked out.
Leon Trotsky turned to him and sarcastically urged him to "Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history." (Leon Trotsky, "History of the Russian Revolution")
The working class has nothing to gain from either form.
http://www.worldsocialism.org/canada/wc00011a.htm   (1190 words)

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