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| | BIGpedia - Soviet Union - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
 | | It was the world's first Communist state, with the political organization of the country defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | | | Although myriad bureaucracies were involved in the formation and execution of Soviet foreign policy, the major policy guidelines were determined by the Politburo of the Communist Party. | | | Crises in the agricultural sector reaped catastrophic consequences in the 1930s, when collectivization met widespread resistance from the kulaks, resulting in a bitter struggle of many peasants against the authorities, famine, and possibly millions of casualties, particularly in Ukraine. |
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| | ipedia.com: Constitution of the Soviet Union Article |
| | Soviet constitutions appeared to guarantee certain political rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion. | | | The political theory underlying the Soviet Constitution differed from the political theory underlying constitutions in the West. | | | By contrast, Soviet constitutions have purported to describe a set of political relationships already in existence. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/constitution_of_the_soviet_union.html
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| | Soviet Glossary |
| | 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. | | | The penal system of the Soviet Union, consisting of a network of harsh labor camps where criminals and political prisoners were forced to serve sentences. | | | Covert or deceptive operations (including the creation and dissemination of disinformation) conducted in support of Soviet foreign policy and designed to influence the opinions or actions of the general public, particular individuals, or foreign governments. |
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| | ICL - Soviet Union (Former~) - Constitution |
| | (3) A session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR shall consist of separate and joint sittings of the chambers, and of meetings of the standing commissions of the chambers or commissions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR held between the sittings of the chambers. | | | The supreme goal of the Soviet state is the building of a classless communist society in which there will be public, communist self-government. | | | (3) All state and public bodies, organizations and officials are obliged to meet the requests of the commissions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and of its chambers, and submit the requisite materials and documents to them. |
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| | Con Con compare home page |
| | The resulting nation still has many similarities to Australia: a multicultural society, a robust and proud democratic tradition, continuing tension between the federal power and the states (or provinces, as they are called) and the challenge of reconciling the indigenous peoples and the post-colonial immigrants. | | | In common with the American and 1789 French documents, it was born in political revolution and designed to create major changes to the whole structure of society. | | | It attempts to forge a genuinely tolerant and democratic state after decades of explicitly racist apartheid government and against a background of often bitter tribal conflict. |
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| | U.S. Torture Machine |
| | Repression of counterrevolutionaries became more severe as counterrevolutionary atrocities increased—e.g., the 1918 attempts on the lives of Lenin and other leading Bolsheviks and the massacres of Communists and the terror wreaked against Jewish villages during the Civil War. | | | Individual Trotskyists who survived the executions of 1937-38 were among the hundreds of thousands of revolutionaries in Stalin& prison camps who requested to be sent to the front to fight against Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the USSR. | | | But he was also head of the ACLU in 1940 when it purged the well-known Communist Party member Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from its board. |
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| | Propaganda |
| | Stalin's constitution guaranteed the people the right to work, the right to rest and leisure (no overtime), maintenance in old age (Social Security), right to education, economic equality, right to form unions, right to privacy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press. | | | Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. | | | Plus, this site has some a few other 18th century conspiracy theories |
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| | Beate Sirota Gordon (1924 - ) |
| | The Constitution had 3 new pillars; Renunciation of War, Sovereignty in the People (with the Emperor as symbol of nation), and Abolition of Feudalistic Family System (or Equality of Sexes). | | | Also, she knew that American women had been disadvantaged because the US Constitution failed to specifically guarantee women's rights. | | | The page has been left in as a citation, but the link was removed because it no longer functions. |
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| | Chronology 1918 |
| | This "soviet democracy" was dominated, in theory, by a dictatorship of the proletariat, exercised by the Communist Party. | | | No other political parties were permitted in Russia and the press and other forms of communication were placed under government control. | | | With the declaration of independence of the Ukraine and the Ukrainian peace treaty with Germany and Austria-Hungary, the Soviets moved to regain control of the Ukraine. |
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| | Constitution of the Soviet Union, 1918 (Extracts) |
| | In order to secure the supremacy of the laboring masses and to guard against any possibility of the restoration of the power of the exploiters, the Congress decrees the arming of the laboring population, the formation of a socialist Red Army of Workers and peasants, and the complete disarmament of the propertied classes. | | | And whereas Karl Marx in his vision of the socialist future had looked forward to a society in which man gave according to his abilities and got according to his needs, the Leninist ver sion [Sec. | | | In order to secure for the laboring masses genuine freedom of conscience, the church is separated from the state and the school from the church, and freedom of religious and anti- religious propaganda is acknowledged to be the right of all citizens. |
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| | 1918 Soviet Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The constitution also stated that under the leadership of the Bolsheviks the workers formed a political alliance with the peasants. | | | It denied, however, the right of social groups that opposed the new government or supported the White armies in the Civil War (1918-21) to participate in elections to the soviets or to hold political power. | | | The first Soviet Constitution, which governed the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, described the regime that assumed power in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. |
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| | I Swear To God... |
| | And while the US Constitution reserves for him that right, the right to free speech, the right to protest what he alone believes is something of an outrage, it does not afford him a few things. | | | I think a very good addition to this would be to point out that several states had established state religions even under the Constitution. | | | After additional searches, I did find the following: |
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: International Bill of Wrongs by Ben Johnson and Michael Tremoglie |
| | As Orwell said about Soviet propaganda in his Notes on Nationalism, "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." | | | No less a democratic government than Canada has banned the Bible’s injunctions against homosexuality as "hate speech." An Islamic bloc in the General Assembly could easily declare that "telling it like it is" about militant Islam constitutes hate speech and seek to end the practice within the United States. | | | This echoes Article 65 of the 1918 Soviet Constitution, which prevented any capitalist from holding governmental office. |
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| | soviet - Columbia Encyclopedia article about soviet |
| | Primarily: examinations, when we perform the bodily movement of writing it down; conversation, when we assert it to display our historical erudition; and political discourses, when we are engaged in showing what Soviet government leads to. | | | soviet, primary unit in the political organization of the former USSR. | | | The constitution of 1936 abolished the division of the electorate into occupational classes and instituted elections of all soviets by direct universal suffrage, but all levels were dominated by the Communist party's parallel hierarchy. |
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| | The constitution free essays |
| | Much evidence to support this claim can be found in the wording of the Constitution itself. | | | The Constitution A case for the connection of America’s colonial and revolutionary religious and political experiences to the basic principles of the Constitution can be readily made. | | | Comparing the US constitution to the 1918 Soviet Constitution |
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| | Wikinfo Russian SFSR |
| | The state was founded in 1918 by the 1918 Soviet Constitution. | | | Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available. | | | Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the RSFSR rejected a socialist system and went through reforms. |
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| | Sovnarkom - |
| | The 1918 Soviet Constitution made the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR responsible to the Congress of Soviets for the "general administration of the affairs of the state." The constitution enabled the Sovnarkom to issue decrees carrying the full force of law when the congress was not in session. | | | The Soviet republics retained their own governments which dealt with domestic matters; they were also named Sovnarkom by conventions of their pre-Union legislation. | | | After the formation of the USSR, the sovnarkom of the USSR was created under proposals of its Constitution; see Premier of the Soviet Union for the chronology of its chairmen. |
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| | Soviet-Empire.com Archive :: View topic - DISCUSSION: Commissars and Commissariats |
| | These positions are from the original 1918 Constitution, and I believe the C.E.C. has to remove and restructure the Commissariat system to be more up-to-date. | | | I would divide the current group of forums under the category of 'Government' into something like 'Executive Government' with the Congress of Soviets, C.E.C., and Council of People's Commissars forums, and 'Local Government' with all of the Commissariats. | | | Comrades, as you know, the practical day-to-day government of the Soviet Union is run by the Commissars and their respective Commissariats. |
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| | ICL - Belarus Index |
| | 7 Nov 1917: October coup by Minsk Soviet; Bolshevik revolution in Russia. | | | When the Belarus Constitutional Court ruled five presidential decrees invalid, including one that overturned the budget and another that banned independent trade unions, President Alexander Lukashenka said he would ignore the Court. | | | 25 March 1918: Declaration of the independent Belarusian People's Republic. |
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| | Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R. (1918) |
| | This fundamental law becomes effective upon the publication of the same in its entirety in the 'Izvestia of the All-Russian General Executive Committee.' It must be published by all organs of the Soviet Government and must be posted in a prominet place in every soviet institution. | | | The declaration of rights of the labouring and exploited people (approved by the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets in January 1918), together with the Constitution of the Soviet Republic, approved by the fifth congress, constitutes a single fundamental law of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. | | | Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R. Adopted by the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets |
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| | It has also been incorporated into the flags of communistic countries such as the Soviet Union. | | | It was featured on the flag of the Soviet Union, adopted in the 1924 Soviet Constitution, and flags of the republics of the Soviet Union after 1924. |
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| | Bolshevist Russia - |
| | The official name of the country was the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. | | | Bolshevist Russia is a common term that refers to the Red side in the Russian Civil War, or more specifically the Russian government between the Bolsheviks' October Revolution (November 7, 1917) and the constitution of the Soviet Union (December 30, 1922). | | | Strictly speaking, there is a small time gap between the October Revolution and the declaration of the RSFSR (and a still larger gap to its first Constitution, in 1918), which may justify the usage of the term in certain circumstances. |
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| | Soviet Goverment |
| | 1946: The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects |
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| | 1936 Constitution of the USSR, Part I |
| | The Organization of Soviet Power in the Localities | | | Part Two: General Provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic | | | Chapter Seven: The All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets |
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