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| | Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
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| | Politics of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Council of Ministers administered party decisions, mainly regarding economic management, by delegating authority to its Presidium; the chairman of Council of Ministers also sat on CPSU Politburo. | | | Prior to 1989, the former Supreme Soviet was constitutionally the highest organ of legislative and executive authority but met only a few days annually; its Presidium managed affairs throughout the year. | | | The Congress of People's Deputies created in 1988 by amendment to Constitution was the highest organ of legislative and executive authority, consisting of 2,250 deputies, about 87 percent of whom were CPSU members or candidate members and some of whom were elected in the first multicandidate (although not multiparty) elections since the early Soviet period. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Soviet_Union
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| | [Non-Harvard Documents] |
| | Materials for the study of the Soviet system state and party constitutions, laws, decrees, decisions and official statements of the leaders in translation. | | | Documents relating to the meetings between the President of the French Republic, the President of the United States of America, the Chairman of the Council of Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Paris, May 15-17, 1960. | | | Documents relating to the meeting of Foreign Ministers of France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, Berlin, January 25- February 18, 1954. |
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http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research_portal/sov_hist_eng/DocN.html
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| | Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War |
| | The decision to send troops was made after a long deliberation and repeated requests from the leadership of the PDPA, Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin and President Nur Mohammad Taraki. | | | Colonel Tsagolov’s Letter to USSR Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov on the Situation in Afghanistan, August 13, 1987 | | | Colonel Tsagolov paid for his attempt to make his criticism public in his interview with Soviet influential progressive magazine “Ogonek” by his career—he was expelled from the Army in 1988. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB57/soviet.html
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| | This outcome highlights how much more difficult Russia’s transition has been when compared to many other post-communist states in Eastern Europe, including the three post-Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. | | | Roman, Meredith L. Making Caucasians Black: Moscow Since the Fall of Communism and the Racialization of Non-Russians." Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 18(2): 1-27 | | | This course focuses on politics in the Russian Federation. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bmoraski/Syllabus3633_Spr06v2.html
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| | The Collapse of the Soviet Union |
| | Russia (Federation) -- Politics and Government -- 1985-1991 | | | Soviet Union -- Politics and Government -- 1985-1991 | | | Politics After The Fall of the Soviet Union (James Davis) |
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http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/glo-sov.html
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| | IPM5230 - THE HISTORY OF POLITICS IN THE SOVIET UNION |
| | Throughout the Soviet period, the history of politics in the USSR was one of the most controversial and politicised areas of scholarship in the West as well as in the Soviet Union. | | | successive attempts to reform the Soviet political system during the post-Stalin period | | | the role of the Communist Party in Soviet politics |
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http://www.aber.ac.uk/modules/2003/IPM5230.html
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| | When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics |
| | The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. | | | Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan, focusing on the problems confronting the Bolsheviks as they sought to promote national security and economic development. | | | Jacobson adopts a post-Cold War interpretative stance, incorporating glasnost and perestroika-era revelations. |
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http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6257.html
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| | Music under Soviet rule |
| | Dmitri Shostakovich; in fact, it is only in the last fifteen years, beginning with the publication in the West in 1979 of Testimony, "The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov", that music critics have begun to comprehend the full significance of his major scores. | | | Many Western academics, for instance, are used to pronouncing judgement on Shostakovich's music in ways that assume an understanding of his political and moral predicament which they do not begin to possess. | | | The Soviet state ordained truth through its total control of the Soviet media, a control which ran to revising this truth, often in quite contradictory ways, whenever the necessity arose. |
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http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/contents.html
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