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    fought for increasing their own influence in the soviets. However, as the civil war progressed, the soviets' authority was progressively reduced,[clarification...
    27 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 15 June 2024
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    the Russian Revolution. Soviets were the main form of government in the Russian SFSR and the Makhnovshchina. The first soviets were established during...
    33 KB (3,860 words) - 03:33, 31 May 2024
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    what would go to the local soviets. The CEC could also limit taxes. In periods between convocations of the Congress of Soviets the CEC held supreme power...
    30 KB (1,760 words) - 09:02, 9 June 2024
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    issued by the local soviets, according to the instructions of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Chapter III: Congress of the Soviets of the Union...
    22 KB (3,200 words) - 18:47, 24 January 2024
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    governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in between sessions of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets from 1917 to 1937. In 1937...
    7 KB (736 words) - 14:37, 6 December 2023
  • "Congress of Soviets". The Congress of Soviets was an assembly of representatives of local councils. In theory, it was the supreme power of the Soviet State...
    4 KB (459 words) - 02:24, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
    Executive Committee as optional for local Soviets and all army committees. The Central Executive Committee calls on the Soviets and army organizations to rally...
    37 KB (4,977 words) - 13:22, 22 February 2024
  • had come under Soviet influence, with the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets establishing the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets in Kharkiv. Unable...
    79 KB (9,447 words) - 04:54, 19 May 2024
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    and armed. To realize their political, economic, and social demands, local soviets (councils of workers) assumed control of municipal government from the...
    165 KB (18,412 words) - 22:49, 23 June 2024
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    from exile. He called for soviets (workers' councils) to seize state power (as seen in the slogan "all power to the soviets"), denounced liberals and...
    10 KB (1,256 words) - 02:19, 27 April 2024
  • local workers' soviets would elect representatives that go on to form regional soviets, which in turn elect representatives that form higher soviets,...
    34 KB (4,228 words) - 11:29, 24 June 2024
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    war began after the Soviets, under the command of Leonid Brezhnev, launched an invasion of Afghanistan to support the local pro-Soviet government that had...
    269 KB (29,795 words) - 18:22, 23 June 2024
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    branch consisted of the Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union and the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (TsIK), while the Council of People's...
    39 KB (4,484 words) - 20:48, 9 June 2024
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    the transfer of power to the Soviets. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, pushed for communist revolution in the Soviets and on the streets, adopting...
    301 KB (29,779 words) - 04:38, 22 June 2024
  • The Bolshevization of the soviets was the process of winning a majority in the soviets by the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) in the...
    22 KB (3,192 words) - 04:49, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
    While OSTK supporters took control of city soviets in 1990, this was not the case in most of the raion soviets with their agricultural constituencies. The...
    51 KB (6,980 words) - 21:28, 4 June 2024
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    Politburo to the local Soviet government, almost 59 years after the Romanov family murder and 14 years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself....
    11 KB (1,344 words) - 12:57, 18 June 2024
  • Free soviets were the basic form of organization in the Makhnovshchina. These soviets acted independently from any central authority, excluding all political...
    9 KB (1,159 words) - 12:32, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soviet Russia Constitution of 1918
    All-Russian Congress of Soviets, made up of deputies from local soviets across Russia. The steering committee of the Congress of Soviets—known as the Central...
    5 KB (500 words) - 19:19, 28 March 2023
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    Perestroika (category Soviet phraseology)
    people and called for democratization. Earlier members of local soviets were appointed by local Communist Party branches, now they were to be elected by...
    32 KB (3,568 words) - 13:00, 6 May 2024
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