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  • Thumbnail for Soviet (council)
    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) - 12:58, 1 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) - 00:48, 19 April 2024
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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) - 12:22, 17 May 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
  • "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
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    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
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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
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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 (18,427 words) - 00:44, 20 May 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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    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
  • 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
  • local workers' soviets would elect representatives that go on to form regional soviets, which in turn elect representatives that form higher soviets,...
    34 KB (4,227 words) - 09:56, 21 April 2024
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    on the jihad against the Soviets, but a much greater effect after the Soviets left and in other countries. (After the Soviets left, training continued...
    268 KB (29,686 words) - 00:22, 25 May 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 (4,482 words) - 18:53, 18 April 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) - 21:08, 15 May 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) - 13:44, 20 March 2024
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    for transfer of power to the soviets. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, pushed for communist revolution in the Soviets and on the streets, adopting...
    295 KB (29,228 words) - 01:30, 22 May 2024
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    to dual subordination: local internal-affairs offices reported both to the executive committees of their respective local Soviets and to their superior...
    16 KB (1,644 words) - 18:06, 18 April 2024
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    January 1948 elections to the local Soviets. [citation needed] After the German surrender, it became clear that Soviet forces were there to stay, and...
    59 KB (6,373 words) - 10:26, 13 May 2024
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    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 (6,978 words) - 07:16, 4 May 2024
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