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  Soviet system
This council is defined by the constitution as "the highest executive and administrate organ of the state power of the USSR.' It is accountable to the Supreme Soviet or, in the intervals between sessions of the Supreme Soviet, to the Presidium..
Considerable importance is attached to these soviets, not only as local organs of administration and government, but also because they involve wide participation by the population in the work of the party and the government at all elves and provide training in administration.....
Soviets were organized in the 19o5 by Marxist-stimulated intellectual in Russian cities as strike committees to coordinate worker opposition to tsarist policies.
www.crossroad.to /Quotes/brainwashing/soviets.htm   (2001 words)

  
 Joseph Stalin - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Stalin's cult of personality, his concentration of power and the means of its execution has led to a common characterization of him as a dictator and to an opinion that he was personally responsible, directly or indirectly, via his policies, for millions or tens of millions of deaths and unjust imprisonments in the Soviet Union.
In April 1917, Stalin was elected to the Central Committee with the third highest vote total in the party and was subsequently elected to the Politburo of the Central Committee (May 1917); he held this position for the remainder of his life.
The Soviet Union, generally ranked as the poorest nation in Europe in 1922, now industrialized at a phenomenal rate, far surpassing Germany's pace of industrialization in the 19th century and Japan's earlier in the 20th.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/t/a/Stalin.html   (8043 words)

  
 Central Executive Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Central Executive Committee refers to governing bodies with executive power of various parties, governments, or private organizations.
Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Executive_Committee   (67 words)

  
 Stalin LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Soviet authorities and other historians have argued that tough measures and the rapid collectivization of agriculture were necessary in order to achieve an equally rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union and ultimately win World War II.
Soviet women under Stalin were also the first generation of women able to give birth in the safety of a hospital, with access to prenatal care.
"The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine" in Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, pp.
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 On Proletarian Democracy By the Central Reorganisation Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) -- ...
The concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat is central to the Marxian scheme of proletarian revolution, socialist construction and the advancement towards communism.
So the basic problems faced by the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, namely the lack of a political system in which the people can directly participate and assert their political will, socialization of the means of production leading to centralization and the accompanying bureaucratization of the whole system, were all manifested in China also.
It means that the Central Committee should have kept the political power in its own hands for a short period sufficient enough to defeat the enemies and ensure the functioning of the new proletarian state.
revcom.us /bob_avakian/democracy/crc-document.htm   (13156 words)

  
 Glossary of Events: The Extraordinary All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Peasants' Deputies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Congress was called by a decision of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and met in Petrograd from November 10 to 25 (November 23 to December 8), 1917.
It heard a report on the merger of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Executive Committee elected by the Congress, and adopted a resolution confirming the decrees of the Second Congress of Soviets on peace and on land, and the decree of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on workers' control.
The Congress adopted a resolution on the agrarian question which was tabled by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and was based on the principle of equalitarian land tenure.
www.marxists.org /glossary/events/e/earcspd.htm   (498 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Glossary
Soviet and Western experts believe that damage to the people's health, to the economy, and to the environment will be felt for decades.
Once the Soviet regime stipulated the plan figures, all levels of the economy, from individual enterprises to the national level, were obligated to meet those goals.
A period, from about 1934 to 1939, of intense fear among Soviet citizens, millions of whom were arrested, interrogated, tortured, imprisoned, deported from their native lands, and executed by Stalin's secret police for political or economic crimes that were spurious.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/soviet_union/su_glos.html   (9351 words)

  
 Soviet-Empire.com - U.S.S.R. Online: New Citizen's Guide
As a citizen of the USSR you are entitled to participate in all levels of government whether it be the Central Executive Committee (CEC) The Congress of Soviets (COS) or in a particular commissariat.
As a Congress of Soviets lasts only a short time you should prepare any bills in advance, as there will not be much time for long debates.
As a member of the Central Executive Committee you are also able to nominate and vote for who the People's Commissar's may be.
www.soviet-empire.com /ussr/nation/new_citizens_guide.php   (1379 words)

  
 The Militant - July 16, 2001 -- Lenin on electrification and fight for alliance of workers, farmers
Below are excerpts from two 1920 reports by V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the October 1917 Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars in the new Soviet government.
The first excerpt is from a report on the work of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies.
The speech was delivered at the first session of the executive committee's meeting on Feb. 2, 1920.
www.themilitant.com /2001/6527/652769.html   (941 words)

  
 On the Establishment of the U.S.S.R.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Stalin's draft was forwarded for discussion to the Central Committees of the Communist Parties of the Soviet national republics.
Point 2 stating that the decisions of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Council of People's Commissars and the Council of Labour and Defence of the R.S.P.S.R. were binding upon the corresponding bodies of the national republics was carried by an 8 to 1 majority (Mdivani voting against and Petrovsky abstaining).
The supreme body of the Union shall be the Union Central Executive Committee consisting of representatives of the central executive committees of the R.S.F.S.R., the Transcaucasian Federation, the Ukraine and Byelorussia pro rata to the population they represent.
www.marx2mao.com /Lenin/USSR22.html   (1739 words)

  
 Pearson, Sealed Train, Chapter 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Central Committee orders were that the demonstration was to be peaceful—which politically was sound—but the planners in the Kshesinskaya Mansion that night were preparing for violence.
At the congress, as soon as Chkheidze learned that the Bolsheviks were going ahead with their plans, he interrupted the debate to demand the floor.
In fact, the most important members of the Executive Committee of the Petersburg Soviet were also members of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets—so the same characters were usually involved with the future crises as had been in the past, even though the body they represented was sometimes different.
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 Report of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA's: Executive Summary
The Committee's investigation has validated their efforts, for they had good reason to argue that the full story was not being told, to suggest that there was more to learn and to insist that a renewed focus on the issue would produce greater pressure and yield new results.
The Committee notes, however, that DIA had earlier discounted the possibility that the symbol was caused by shadowing because of the constant shape of the figures over a period of days and at different times of the day.
Although the Committee was generally very satisfied with the degree of understanding and help it received from the Executive branch, its request for the release of relevant CIA operational files has, to date, been denied.
www.fas.org /irp/congress/1993_rpt/pow-exec.html   (20195 words)

  
 Leftwing Monsters V: Joseph Stalin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A devotee of Vladimir Lenin's doctrine of a strong centralist party of professional revolutionaries, Stalin was appointed by Lenin (who was the head of the Soviet state) in 1912 to a seat on the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, a Marxist political entity that would rise to power in
In May 1917, Stalin was elected to the Politburo (the main policy-making and executive board) of the Central Committee (the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, directing all Party and government activities), a position he would retain for the rest of his life.
During the Russian Civil War (the 1918-1922 conflict in which the Communist Red Army defeated the anti-Communist White Army) and the Polish-Soviet War (1919-21), Stalin was an officer of the Red Army (so named in tribute to the blood shed by the working class in its struggle against capitalism).
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=19891   (2776 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Joseph Stalin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
According to the Molotov --- Ribbentrop Pact, Eastern Poland was in the Soviet sphere of influence.
According to the pact, the Soviets were promised a slice of Poland, the annexation of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and an undisturbed military advance on Finland, which the Soviets acted on almost immediately.
After the tide of war had changed in the Soviet Union's favor, the Red Army in its 1945 conquest of eastern Germany took revenge for German depredations and genocide by embarking on a systematic program of pillaging, expropriation, rape and murder against the remaining German civilian inhabitants.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/joseph_stalin   (9327 words)

  
 The Role of the Executive Committee in the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Role of the Executive Committee in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Though the decision on how to deal with the problem presented by the Soviets was ultimately made by the President, these men provided invaluable insight and commentary by working out the various alternatives and options.
Many Republican members of Congress had been warning that the Soviet Union would do whatever it had to in order to gain a strong foothold in Cuba, including the placement of missiles.
www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1983-4/pavy.htm   (2183 words)

  
 Congress of Soviets
The Second Congress of Soviets met on October 25, 1917, one day offer the start of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Dominated by Bolshevik delegates the Second Congress of Soviets approved the Bolshevik coup d état and the decrees on peace and loud issued by Lenin.
It also confirmed the Council of People s Commissars, drawn exclusively from Bolshevik Ranks, as the new government and elected the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
www.cold-war.info /glossary/congress-of-soviets.html   (129 words)

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