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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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| | ICL - Soviet Union (Former~) - Constitution |
| | The Procurator-General of the USSR is appointed by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and is responsible and accountable to it and, between sessions of the Supreme Soviet, to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. | | | The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR promulgates decrees and adopts decisions. | | | A Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR may not be prosecuted, or arrested, or incur a court-imposed penalty, without the sanction of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR or, between its sessions, of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. |
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http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/r100000_.html
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| | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | He was replaced as first secretary of the CPSU by Leonid I. Brezhnev (who in 1960 had become chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet) and as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin. | | | The death of Stalin on Mar. 5, 1953, ushered in a new era in Soviet history. | | | In September the Congress of People’s Deputies voted for the dissolution of the USSR, and discussions began which led to the Dec. 8 founding of the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| | Soviet law after 1930 did not recognize the existence of unemployment; everyone was obliged to work until the retirement age (56 for women; 60 for men) unless there were mitigating circumstances. | | | The cabinet of department heads was known as the Council of People’s Commissars from 1917 until 1946 and the Council of Ministers thereafter. | | | The Supreme Soviet also appointed, under CPSU tutelage, the senior officials in the executive agencies of the government. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArtTextOnly.aspx?refid=761553017&print=0
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| | Soviet-Empire.com - U.S.S.R. Online: Constitution |
| | The Congress of Soviets is the supreme authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | | | The Congress of Soviets is convened twice a year. | | | Adopted by the Congress of Soviets on the 24th April 2002 |
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http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/nation/government/constitution.php
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| | The Union of the Soviet Republics |
| | The treaty is to be submitted for ratification to the First Congress of the Union of Republics. | | | The Lausanne Conference (November 20, 1922 to July 24, 1923) was called on the initiative of France, Great Britain and Italy to discuss the Near Eastern question (conclusion of a peace treaty between Greece and Turkey, delimitation of Turkey's frontiers, adoption of a convention governing the Straits, etc.). | | | After J. Stalin had delivered his report, the representatives of the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia and Byelorussia addressed the congress and on behalf of their respective peoples welcomed the union of the Soviet republics into a single union statethe U.S.S.R. [p. |
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http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/USR22.html
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| | Post-Soviet Republics To Unite Again |
| | Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. | | | Pavel Borodin, the Secretary of the Unified State of Russia and Belarus assumed that the new commonwealth might resemble the USSR. | | | As far as the attitude to post-Soviet leaders is concerned, 32% of Russians sympathize with Alexander Lukashenko, the incumbent President of Belarus, 20% like Nursultan Nazarbayev, the incumbent President of Kazakhstan, while seven percent prefer Vladimir Voronin, the President of Moldavia. |
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| | Cannibalism in Autumn |
| | On July 3, 1997, the supreme court of Russia's Chuvash Autonomous Republic sentenced Vladimir Nikolayev, 38, to death for killing and cannibalizing two people in the town of Novocheboksary. | | | Russia's most industrious cannibal, Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev is believed to have killed up to 100 women, and served many of them to his dinner guests. | | | Nikolai used at least 47 of his victims to make ethnic dishes for his neighbors in the Russian republic of Kyargyzstan. |
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http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/ukraine.html
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| | Ex-Soviet Republics Join World Banking Community |
| | Members were especially anxious about separate central banks in every republic and about the control of the money supply. | | | Turkmenistan was admitted to the IMF, but a vote on Azerbaijan's membership to the fund was postponed until May because the republic had not finished the paperwork required. | | | The Russian economist said that his government would raise oil prices to world market levels in two weeks and already was privatizing some state-owned small businesses. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V112/N23/soviet.23w.html
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| | Subject Cataloging Practice for Russian and the Former Soviet Republics |
| | As a not-very-amusing hypothetical case, perhaps it's in order to wonder what the subject headings should be if Zyuganov wins the Presidential election and Russia and Belarus declare a new Soviet Union. | | | (2) Works about Soviet government departments and agencies which existed between 1923 and 1991, and which AACR requires to be entered under jurisdiction. | | | Organisations include some international organisations that look like jurisdictions -- "Commonwealth of Independent States" is an example of this. |
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http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/russ.htm
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| | Religion in Former Soviet Republics by James Billington |
| | The leading prophet, Father Aleksandr Men, was murdered two years ago and thereby became an authentic martyr. | | | This is the first time the martyrs of the Soviet period were recognized. | | | The rediscovery of the lost martyrs of the Soviet period can be summed up in the words of one of them when he entered the gulag and went off to his death. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/centers/woodstock/report/r-fea31.htm
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| | PU Slavic Manual: Rus/SU/FSr: a short course |
| | The Anglo-American winter war with Russia, 1918-1919 : a diplomatic and military tragicomedy / Benjamin D. Rhodes. | | | Lenin was a revolutionary against the Russian Empire, but the head of the Soviet state. | | | Savinkov was a revolutionary against both the Russian Empire and the Soviet state. |
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http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/sgman/rsufsr.html
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| | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Overview of the Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit. | | | the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991. | | | Contains an article that traces the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9105999?tocId=9105999
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| | Corporate Bodies: Governments in the Former Soviet republics |
| | The heading Russian S.F.S.R. is used for both the Soviet Government for the period November 7, 1917-July 23, 1923, and for the constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1923. | | | The Commonwealth of Independent States, used only as a corporate body, comprises eleven of the Former Soviet republics and is not the successor the the Soviet Union. | | | Corporate Bodies: Governments in the Former Soviet republics |
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| | History/Former Soviet Republics |
| | A History of PolandIncorporating the most up-to-date research, A History of Poland offers a wide-ranging, readable survey of the country's history, from early settlements, through the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland, to the Solidarity movement and the present day modBy: Prazmowska, Anita J.Bi... | | | GulagThe Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. | | | Prague in Black and GoldPrague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. |
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http://www.booksbytesandbeyond.com/books/HIS012000.html
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| | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics |
| | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics, Transcaucasian Railroads, Currency Tokens Issue, ND(1920), 5 000 rubles, UNC Pick S641, Ryab 20960 | | | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics, Transcaucasian Railroads, Currency Tokens Issue, ND(1920), 50 000 rubles, XF Pick S644, Ryab 20963 | | | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics, Currency Tokens Issue, 1924, 100 000 000 rubles, wmk "stars", XF Pick S636, Ryab 20956 |
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http://www.rustypennies.com/catalog/transfsr.html
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| | Cheap Books, History, Europe, Former Soviet Republics & Siberia |
| | The product was released on 01 May, 1999. | | | We can highly recommend Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's cheap Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic. | | | Cheap Books, History, Europe, Former Soviet Republics & Siberia |
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http://www.onlineshop.us.com/cat_books_4951/Books_History_Europe.php
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| | Maps of USSR - Soviet Union Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ... |
| | Copyright © 1999 Photius Coutsoukis (all rights reserved) | | | Maps of USSR - Soviet Union Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System | | | Please put this page in your BOOKMARKS - - - - - |
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