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The Seventh All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Peasants’, Cossacks’ and Red Army Deputies was held December 5–9, 1919. [28] That year a report on the foreign policy of Soviet Russia was submitted to the Congress and Leon Trotsky read a report on Soviet military construction and fronts in the Russian Civil War. [29] [30]
The First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, at which the majority belonged to the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, rejected the resolutions proposed by the Bolsheviks to end the war and transfer all power to the Soviets and adopted Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik resolutions proclaiming the full support of the Socialist Ministers ...
The first session of the congress ran from 10:45 pm on November 7 (OS:October 25) to 6 am on November 8 (OS: October 26) of 1917. The congress was opened by the Menshevik Dan on November 7 at 10:45 pm, at the height of the armed uprising that began in Petrograd; the opening session was attended by many delegates from the socialist parties coming from all over Russia, from a variety of sectors ...
The All-Union Congress of Soviets (Russian: Всесоюзный съезд Советов, romanized: Vsesoyuznyy s"yezd Sovetov) was formally the supreme governing body of the Soviet Union from its formation (30 December 1922) until the adoption of its second constitution in 1936. [1]
The Congress started out bringing together only Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. However Third All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies took place on 26 January 1918 [O.S. 13 January 1918] at the Smolny Institute, also in Petrograd. [3]
The All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Russian: Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет (ВЦИК), romanized: Vserossijskij Tsentraĺný Ispolniteĺný Komitet (VTsIK)) was (June – November 1917) a permanent body formed by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (held from June 16 to July 7 ...
Officially, the Congress of Soviets created laws and elected the Council of People's Commissars, which was the government. In the interim its functions were performed by designated executive bodies, titled Central Executive Committees, such as the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in Russia.
The resolution adopted at the end of the first meeting (drawn up in advance, even before the start of the Congress) read: the exclusive right to decide all issues related to war and peace belongs to the All–Russian Congress of Soviets and the authorized bodies of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars; the ...