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The Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and several other Soviet republics and national autonomies in the Soviet Russia and soviet Union from 1917 to 1936 and a somewhat similar Congress of People's Deputies from 1989 to 1991.
The Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union was composed of representatives from the councils of all the Soviet republics on the following basis: from the City Council - 1 member per 25 thousand voters, from provincial (regional, territorial) and republic-level congresses - 1 member per 125 thousand residents.
The Extraordinary 8th All-Union Congress of Soviets was held in Moscow from November 25 to December 5, 1936, on the last day of its work it approved the new constitution of the Soviet Union, according to which the supreme body of state power of the Soviet Union is a Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (instead of a Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union, which was a supreme body according to ...
9th Congress 8 days 1919–1920 election 29 March – 5 April 1920 301 VD – 102 CD 19 FM – 12 CM: None V. Lenin — — — 611,978 10th Congress 9 days 1921–1922 election 8 March – 16 March 1921 715 VD – 553 CD 25 FM – 15 CM: None V. Lenin — — — 732,521 11th Congress 7 days 1921–1922 election 27 March – 2 April 1922 694 ...
The Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union saw the establishment of the All-Union Congress of Soviets and its Central Executive Committee (CEC). The Congress of Soviets held legislative responsibilities and was the highest organ of state power, while the CEC was to exercise the powers of the Congress of Soviets whenever it was not in session, which in practice comprised the majority of its ...
The decision to hold the Congress as the highest organ of the Soviets was taken at the Meeting, organizational work was entrusted to the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, which included 16 representatives of provincial Soviets and front-line army units, which expanded its authority throughout the country until the convocation of the ...
This Congress was not the same as the Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union which governed the whole Soviet Union after its creation in 1922. For the earlier portion of its life, the Congress was a democratic body. Over Russia there were hundreds of soviets, democratic local governing bodies in which the surrounding population could ...
The 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was convened in the Andreevskii hall of the large Kremlin palace on 18 December 1925. [1] A total of 665 delegates with decisive votes and 641 delegates with advisory voice were in attendance, representing the 643,000 members and 445,000 candidate members of the Soviet Communist Party. [1]