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Ads by Google      Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law. Although there were many ethnic Jews in the Soviet Union, actual practice of Judaism was rare in Communist times. The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union   (6270 words)      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. The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. In contrast to the revolutionary spirit that accompanied the birth of the Soviet Union, the prevailing mood of the Soviet leadership at the time of Brezhnev's death in 1982 was one of aversion to change. http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Soviet_Union   (4187 words)      Encyclopedia article on Soviet Union [EncycloZine] According to the most recent Soviet Constitution of 1977, the Soviet Union theoretically was a federal state consisting of fifteen republics joined together in a voluntary union and the government had a federal structure ( see Constitution of the Soviet Union). With the exception of the brief initial time period immediately following the revolution, the political organization of the country was defined by the only allowed political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and whoever controlled it. Soviet foreign policy played a major role determining the tenor of international relations for nearly four decades, and the Soviet Union had official relations with the majority of the nations of the world by the late 1980s. http://encyclozine.com/Soviet_Union   (4187 words)      The Soviet Constitution of 1924: an Invitation to World Federalism For investigators of World Government, the Declaration part of the 1924 USSR Constitution is especially interesting, because it contains this committment to gradually expand the Federation by incrementally admitting more and more republics, after they had been liberated, until the whole world had joined the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION OF SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUBLICS PART I DECLARATION Since the foundation of the Soviet Republics, the states of the world have been divided into two camps: the camp of capitalism and the camp of socialism. All these considerations insistently demand the union of the Soviet Republics into one federated state capable of guaranteeing external security, economic prosperity internally, and the free national development of peoples. http://www.users.cyberone.com.au/myers/ussr1924.html   (4187 words)      ussr77.txt The Supreme Soviet of a Union Republic is empowered to deal with all matters within the jurisdiction of the Republic under the Constitutions of the USSR and the Republic. Adoption and amendment of the Constitution of a Union Republic; endorsement of state plans for economic and social development, of the Republic's Budget, and of reports on their fulfilment; and the formation of bodies accountable to the Supreme Soviet of the Union Republic are the exclusive prerogative of that Supreme Soviet. Adoption and amendment of the Constitution of an Autonomous Republic; endorsement of state plans for economic and social development, and of the Republic's Budget; and the formation of bodies accountable to the Supreme Soviet of the Autonomous Republic are the exclusive prerogative of that Supreme Soviet. http://www.constitution.org/cons/ussr77.txt   (4187 words)      ICL - Soviet Union (Former~) - Constitution (3) Adoption and amendment of the Constitution of a Union Republic; endorsement of state plans for economic and social development, of the Republic's Budget, and of reports on their fulfillment; and the formation of bodies accountable to the Supreme Soviet of the Union Republic are the exclusive prerogative of that Supreme Soviet. (2) The Supreme Soviet of a Union Republic is empowered to deal with all matters within the jurisdiction of the Republic under the Constitutions of the USSR and the Republic. The procedure of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and of its bodies shall be defined in the Rules and Regulations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and other laws of the USSR enacted on the basis of the Constitution of the USSR. http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/r100000_.html   (10400 words)      ipedia.com: Constitution of the Soviet Union Article The Soviet Union was governed by four separate constitutions in the course of its existence: 1918 Soviet Constitution 1924 Soviet Constitution 1936 Soviet Constitution 1977 Soviet Constitution The pol... Finally, Soviet constitutions specified the form and content of state symbols, such as the arms, the flag, and the state anthem. Nevertheless, Soviet constitutions did not contain provisions guaranteeing the inalienable rights of the citizenry, and they lacked the machinery to protect individual rights contained in many democratic constitutions. http://www.ipedia.com/constitution_of_the_soviet_union.html   (378 words)      Soviet Glossary 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. The highest organ of legislative and executive authority, according to the Soviet Constitution. 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. http://www.fas.org/irp/world/russia/su_glos.html   (9333 words)      Constitution of the Soviet Union, 1918 (Extracts) With the reconstitution of the Soviet republics (Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Georgia, et al.) into the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) in 1923, a new constitution was adopted in 1924. The Russian Soviet Republic is established on the basis of a free union of free nations, as a federation of national soviet republics. The first constitution of the new Soviet state--the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic--was adopted by the Congress of Soviets on July 10, 1918. http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob103.html   (668 words)      U.S. Torture Machine Common to the entire spectrum of bourgeois ideologues—from Bush and the right wing of the Republican Party to AI and Democratic Party liberals—is the longstanding maxim that the Soviet Union, born of the only successful workers revolution in history, was the epitome of brutal repression. As Trotskyists who fought for the unconditional military defense of the Soviet degenerated workers state against imperialism and internal counterrevolution, we noted that among the Kremlin’s crimes was that its stifling repression drove pro-socialist members of the intelligentsia into the arms of “democratic” counterrevolution. AI and Co.’s campaigns for the bloody capitalist rulers to live up to their Constitutions, Conventions and Declarations serve to ideologically fortify a brutal system of exploitation that on an hourly basis maims, kills and tortures—not merely through military and police violence but through poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and preventable industrial accidents. http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/863/amnesty2.html   (3102 words)      Soviet Union - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch According to the Constitution, as amended in 1988, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union was the Congress of People's Deputies, which convened for the first time in May 1989. 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 have been involved in the formation and execution of Soviet foreign policy, the major policy guidelines have been determined by the Politburo of the Communist Party. http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/soviet_union.htm   (3102 words)      Encyclopedia4U - History of the Jews in the Soviet Union - Encyclopedia Article Soviet newspapers, radio and television often avoided using the word "Jew" to maintain the fiction that the Soviet Union was following its constitution, which officially outlawed anti-Semitism. The pact, which arguably allowed Hitler to freely enter Poland, the nation with the world's largest Jewish population, was not an acceptance of Nazism, but a realization that the Soviet Union was unable to win a war against its ideological arch enemy in 1939. Although the Jewish community went from being one of the most isolated in Europe to one of the most assimilated in Europe from the time of the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1991 disillusion of the Soviet Union, the identity has not faded away by any means. http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/h/history-of-the-jews-in-the-soviet-union.html   (3102 words)      186166.txt Well before the collapse of the Soviet Union, therefore, Ukraine enjoyed most of the prerogatives of an independent state without losing its membership in or access to the resources of a reorganized U.S.S.R.[4] Genuine independence was achieved suddenly, in the wake of the August 1991 putsch. This inaugural monograph, a "white paper" on crime and justice issues in Ukraine following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, is a product of the U.S.-Ukraine Research Partnership that has been conducted by the NIJ International Center since 1998. For much of Soviet history, police were evaluated on the basis of rates of solving crimes (raskryvaemost), which encouraged them not to register crime reports, especially thefts, where there were no obvious suspects. http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/nij/186166.txt   (3102 words)      Soviet Union 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. Abstract With the break-up of the Soviet Union, emigration from its successor... The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. http://hallencyclopedia.com/Soviet_Union   (3102 words)      Soviet Union Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law. Although there were many ethnic Jews in the Soviet Union, actual practice of Judaism was rare in Communist times. Once denied diplomatic recognition by the capitalist world, the Soviet Union had official relations with the majority of the nations of the world by the late 1980s. http://www.launchbase.org/encyclopedia/Soviet_Union   (6137 words)      Soviet Union According to the most recent Soviet Constitution of 1977, the Soviet Union theoretically was a federal state consisting of fifteen republics joined together in a voluntary union and the government had a federal structure (see Constitution of the Soviet Union). The political organization of the country was defined by the only recognized political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Soviet foreign policy played a major role determining the tenor of international relations for nearly four decades, and the Soviet Union had official relations with the majority of the nations of the world by the late 1980s. http://www.wikiverse.org/soviet-union   (6137 words)      Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Soviet Union, founded three decades before the Cold War, became a primary model for future Communist states; the Communist government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law. Although there were many ethnic Jews in the Soviet Union, actual practice of Judaism was rare in Communist times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union   (5889 words)      Encyclopedia: 1924 Soviet Constitution The 1924 Soviet Constitution legitimated the December 1922 union of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Republic, the Belorussian Republic, and the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Central Executive Committee is divided into the Soviet of the Union, which would represent the constituent republics, and the Soviet of Nationalities, which would represent the interests of nationality groups. The 1924 Constitution Category:Soviet law Soviet Union, 1924 Soviet Union, 1924 Category:1924 http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/1924-Soviet-Constitution   (5889 words)      Encyclopedia article on Soviet Union [EncycloZine] According to the most recent Soviet Constitution of 1977, the Soviet Union theoretically was a federal state consisting of fifteen republics joined together in a voluntary union and the government had a federal structure ( see Constitution of the Soviet Union). With the exception of the brief initial time period immediately following the revolution, the political organization of the country was defined by the only allowed political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and whoever controlled it. Soviet foreign policy played a major role determining the tenor of international relations for nearly four decades, and the Soviet Union had official relations with the majority of the nations of the world by the late 1980s. http://encyclozine.com/Soviet_Union   (5889 words)      Tr@nsit 23 -- Timothy Snyder Following Richard Pipes, he also emphasized the institutional original sin of the Soviet Union: its nominally federal constitution. Szporluk saw that the westward expansion of the Soviet Union in 1945 was a risky maneuver, since it imported millions of people with lively understandings of national identity into a system not designed for national life. These regions, previously part of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, disappeared into the larger notion of "Ukraine" and the still larger "Soviet Union." Szporluk suspected that the attempt to Sovietize these western peripheries, seen as unproblematic from a Leninist or a modernization point of view, was in fact fraught with dialectical contradiction. http://www.univie.ac.at/IWM/t-23txt7.htm   (5889 words)      Russia 16 Soviet Union Holocaust Home Soviet Union Holocaust Information Documents of the Holocaust - Soviet Union Documents of the Holocaust - Soviet U.. Soviet Union Wwii Home Soviet Union Wwii Information World War II Please follow the guided tour or have a look at one of these showcases: Intro: The.. Soviet Union Collapse Home Soviet Union Collapse Information The Collapse of the Soviet Union The Causes and Consequences of the Collapse of th.. http://www.justrussia.info/russia-P.html   (5889 words)      BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Timeline: Soviet Union 1924 - Soviet Union adopts constitution based on the dictatorship of the proletariat and stipulating the public ownership of land and the means of production; Lenin dies and is replaced by Joseph Stalin. 1991 September - Congress of People's Deputies votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 1968 - Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to stem a trend towards liberalisation; "Brezhnev doctrine" enunciated, giving Communist countries the right to intervene in other Communist states whose policies threatened the international Communist movement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1112551.stm   (5889 words)      Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Two developments dominated the decade that followed: the increasingly apparent crumbling of the Soviet Union's economic and political structures, and the patchwork attempts at reforms to reverse that process. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation claimed to be the legal successor to the Soviet Union on the international stage despite its loss of superpower status. In contrast to the revolutionary spirit that accompanied the birth of the Soviet Union, the prevailing mood of the Soviet leadership at the time of Brezhnev's death in 1982 was one of aversion to change. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union   (5889 words)      CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background This neutrality, once ingrained as part of the Austrian cultural identity, has been called into question since the Soviet collapse of 1991 and Austria's entry into the European Union in 1995. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979, but was forced to withdraw 10 years later by anti-Communist mujahidin forces supplied and trained by the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others. Armenia and Azerbaijan began fighting over the area in 1988; the struggle escalated after both countries attained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. http://www.phatnav.com/factbook/fields/2028.html   (5889 words)      Untitled photo on Flickr - Photo Sharing! 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. It has also been incorporated into the flags of communistic countries such as the Soviet Union. Before this, the flags of Soviet republics tended to be a plain red field, defaced with the golden text of the name of the respective republic, as stipulated in Article 90 of the 1918 Soviet Constitution. http://www.flickr.com/photos/belsner/5160322   (566 words)      THE RED MAFIA: A LEGACY OF COMMUNISM Simis tells many stories about defending people involved in the underground economy in the Soviet Union, several of which involve people who reported criminal activity and corruption to the authorities and, as a result, were forced to leave town or were themselves prosecuted. The third section addresses the underground economy in the latter years of the Soviet Union as the framework from which the current Russian mafia, the subject of the fourth section, developed. In the 1960s and 1970s- and on into the 1980s- the Soviet economy was characterized by extensive illegal market activity involving systematic bribery of people in positions of power, which was primarily in the hands of the Communist Party. http://andrsn.stanford.edu/Other/redmaf.html   (9998 words)      Soviet Union Vignette @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent. http://www.launchbase.org/encyclopedia/Soviet_Union   (4972 words)      History of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). After the revolution, the party leadership devised a constitution that appeared to recognize the authority of the local Soviets. Soviets were the bodies of direct popular democracy; although they held no official position of power in the Provincial government, they exerted considerable influence over the hearts and minds of the working classes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Soviet_Union   (4972 words)      H-Net Review: Roger E. Chapman on Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change To argue that the Soviet Union collapsed is as problematic as to report that it disappeared, another word circulating in book titles.[3] The government obviously changed, but the new system is forged out of the old. If this was the beginning of the "collapse" or the "disappearance" of the Soviet Union, it was Russians who were totally in charge of the situation. As has been suggested, the Soviet Union was an example of state capitalism.[5] http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22045935440635   (4972 words)      sociology - Soviet Union 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. The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. In contrast to the revolutionary spirit that accompanied the birth of the Soviet Union, the prevailing mood of the Soviet leadership at the time of Brezhnev's death in 1982 was one of aversion to change. http://www.aboutsociology.com/sociology/Soviet_Union   (4178 words)

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