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| | Soviet Union Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org |
 | | The main tasks of the congress were the election of the standing legislature, the Supreme Soviet, and the election of the chairman of the Supreme Soviet, who acted as head of state. | | | The Supreme Court supervised the lower courts and applied the law, as established by the Constitution or as interpreted by the Supreme Soviet. | | | The Supreme Soviet, which had an elected chairman who functioned as head of state, oversaw the Council of Ministers, which acted as the executive branch of the government. |
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http://www.launchbase.org/encyclopedia/Soviet_Union
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| | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When the leadership of the Central Committee was restructured at the time of Stalin's death, the office of the General Secretary remained unoccupied, but two senior Politburo members, Georgy Malenkov (the new prime minister) and Nikita Khruschev, were included in the Secretariat. | | | Once Stalin came to dominate the Politburo, the position of General Secretary became synonymous with that of party leader and de facto ruler of the USSR. | | | He was replaced by his deputy, Vladimir Ivashko, who only held the post for five days before the Supreme Soviet of the USSR suspended all activities of the Communist Party on August 29, 1991. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
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| | TCC - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev |
| | Entered law school of the Moscow State University and became a member of the Communist Party. | | | After Andropov's death in February 1984, Konstatin Chernenko became secretary general and it was likely that Gorbachev would be his successor. | | | In May 1989 Gorbachev was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet (parliament) and retained the national presidency. |
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| | Brad Cox, Ph.D. |
| | In July 1985, soon after Gorbachev's election as General Secretary, he is said to have persuaded Andrei Gromyko, the oldest member of the Politburo and the most enduring foreign minister in the Soviet Union, to step down and take the largely ceremonial post of President of the USSR. | | | This was to totally disregard the constitutional requirement that such matters be taken up at a congress of the Party, of which he was the General Secretary. | | | Later on, when Leonid Brezhnev was General Secretary and received as a gift a valuable cigarette case that would only open every half hour as a restraint on his chain smoking, he too was derided. |
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http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/SocialConstruction/CollapseOfRussiaAndMarx.html
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In May 1989 Gorbachev was elected chairman of this Supreme Soviet and thereby retained the national presidency. | | | In October 1988 Gorbachev was able to consolidate his power by his election to the chairmanship of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet (the national legislature). | | | At the same time, the Congress, under his leadership, abolished the Communist Party's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union, thus paving the way for the legalization of other political parties. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037405?tocId=9037405
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| | Workers World [Sam Marcy]: Class rule and the forms of property (Jan. 16, 1992) |
| | Union contracts were negotiated with the Minister of Supply, who presumably was pro-Labor. | | | The review ushered in a new leftist trend in the Soviet Union in response to the ideological and political offensive unleashed by the Truman administration. | | | This was most evident in 1945, when the British Labor Party won its historic election victory over Churchill and the Conservatives, ushering in a new government headed by Labor Prime Minister Clement Atlee. |
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http://www.workers.org/marcy/1992/sm920116.html
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| | The Collapse of Eastern Europe |
| | CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who had opposed the repression of this movement was removed from office as a result. | | | In the October 1991 general election, voter turn-out was only 40%, the worst turn-out in any general election in Europe this century. | | | General Jaruzelsky was re-elected President, but offered Solidarity seats in a coalition government. |
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| | The end of Communist rule in East Central Europe |
| | Further elections were held in June 1992 which served to further highlight the extent of the split between the two countries. | | | The Slovak Nationalist Party did well, gaining over ten per-cent of votes in the Federal Assembly. | | | Following an attempt to raise food prices in the Summer of 1980 strikes spread throughout the country, resulting in the replacement of Party Leader Edward Gierek by Stanis_aw Kania, and the creation of Solidarno__ in August. |
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http://www.bath.ac.uk/~lismd/czech/1989-wende.html
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| | Official Monster Raving Loony Party: Croydon Branch |
| | The ultimate test will be when the OMRLP is catapaulted into the corridors of power at the next election; and the ultimate triumph will be the establishment of a single-party state on democratic Loony principles. | | | This will inevitably happen within ten or fifteen years of Loony government, as the politicians of the other parties will join the true path of Loony, and the old parties will wither away. | | | Lenin, Political Report of the Central Committee to the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), March 1918. |
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| | "Kremlin and Wall Street: Two Rival Gangs"- TiM GW Bulletin 98/12-4b |
| | until the autumn of 1993, the patriotic forces of the Supreme Soviet tried to withstand the pressure from the Gaidar-Yeltsin reformers. | | | It came into our lexicon from the International Law, and became a political term. | | | With a heavy heart, Roman Antonovich returned home. |
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| | Timelines - This Day in Alternate History |
| | He was President of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991 (at first as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, until the Supreme Soviet was replaced by the Congress of People's Deputies). | | | Leonid Brezhnev ruled the USSR as First Secretary (later General Secretary) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, and as Chairman of the Presidium from 1977 to 1982, replacing Nikolai Podgorny. | | | He was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. |
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| | Country Studies - Mongolia: Soviet Union |
| | Shortly after the Vladivostok initiative, Mongolian officials began talks with United States diplomats concerning another attempt to improve relations. | | | The Mongolian ambassador to the Soviet Union also served on the party Central Committee. | | | When Batmonh became general secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, an event followed closely by Gorbachev's election as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the two leaders pledged to uphold and to strengthen the Mongolian-Soviet alliance. |
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http://www.photoglobe.info/ebooks/mongolia/cstudies_mongolia_0145.html
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| | The Collapse of the Soviet Union |
| | His appointment followed the death of three previous Soviet leaders in three years. | | | Gorbachev a communist reformer was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985. | | | Not being able to afford another short term leader the old guard appointed the youthful 56 year old Mikhial Gorbachev as General Secretary. |
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| | Pravda.RU U.S.A. explains decision to create nuclear missile shield |
| | Lawyer Genrikh Padva, who represents the interests of State Secretary Pavel Borodin of the Russia-Belarus Union State, still doesn't know whether his client will be able to visit Switzerland this May and testify at the Swiss prosecutor-general's office. | | | The USA has decided that it is time to redraw the guidelines established 30 years ago by the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, and US President Richard Nixon, in 1972. | | | The majority of the reactions to Washington’s announced intention to break the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed between General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and President Nixon in 1972 have been hostile, except, predictably, NATO and the UK More details... |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/politics/2001/05/04/4671.html
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| | Foreign Affairs - Reagan and Gorbachev: Gorbachev and Economic Reform - Marshall I. Goldman |
| | Soviet citizens were probably relieved at the selection of Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, for he stands in sharp contrast to his aging and ailing predecessors. | | | In the limited period he was in power, Andropov fired over 20 ministers and deputy ministers, along with 20-30 percent of the party and government officials at the local level. | | | Summary: Soviet citizens were probably relieved at the selection of Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, for he stands in sharp contrast to his aging and ailing predecessors. |
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19850901faessay8449/marshall-i-goldman/reagan-and-gorbachev-gorbachev-and-economic-reform.html?mode=print
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| | Reagan's Osama Connection By Fred Kaplan |
| | Gorbachev took the helm as the reform-minded general-secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985. | | | One of his predecessors, Leonid Brezhnev,* had invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and the move was proving a disaster. | | | In early December, Gorbachev summoned President Najibullah, the puppet leader of Afghanistan, to give him the news: The Soviet troops would be leaving within 18 months; after that, he was on his own. |
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| | Lest We Forget by Paul Craig Roberts |
| | At that time Krushchev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, held the most powerful political office in the world. | | | Fifty years ago today Nikita Krushchev gave his Secret Speech to the Closed Session of the Twentieth Party Congress in which he denounced Joseph Stalin. | | | He no doubt realized that he was reducing his power by reducing the fear associated with his position. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts152.html
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| | "Sholokhov at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| | "Sholokhov at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | | | My Party duty demands this of me; a duty of conscience and honor as a Party member and as a writer. | | | But in 1944 Fadeev managed to free himself from his secretary duties for a few years, and that was enough for him to create in just a short time an excellent work about the young guard of Krasnodon. |
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| | Gorbachev's Glasnost |
| | Gorbachev's Glasnost shows how official reportage coincided with Gorbachev's political agenda and how, in his capacity as general secretary, he expanded media freedoms in order to employ the press against his enemies. | | | JOSEPH GIBBS has worked as a reporter and editor on several Massachusetts newspapers. | | | The picture changed significantly, though slowly and chaotically, with the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev as the Communist Party's general secretary in 1985. |
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http://www.tamu.edu/upress/books/1999/gibbs.htm
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| | Events in the Soviet Union |
| | The startling events that occurred in the Soviet Union during the course of this week are a clear indication of the fragility of the process of renewal set in motion under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev since he became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | | | Dr Viljoen would do well to cast his eyes over his own party's dismal anti-democratic track record. | | | They hoped to spur economic renewal through political reforms that recognised the pluralism of Soviet society and encouraged openness and that extended democratic practices. |
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http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/1991/pr0822.html
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