The All-Union Congress of Soviets (Russian: Всесоюзный съезд Советов) was formally the supreme governing body of the Soviet Union from its formation (30...

similar Congress of People's Deputies from 1989 to 1991. After the creation of the Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union functioned...

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991...

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...

functioning in the Soviet Union and legalizing the one-party state. The 1936 Constitution replaced the Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union with the Supreme...

unified power was the only branch of government in the Soviet state. Prior to 1936, the Congress of Soviets was the supreme legislative body. During 1989–1991...

The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union (Russian: Съезд народных депутатов СССР, romanized: Sʺezd narodnykh deputatov SSSR) was the highest...

including the Soviet Union as a socialist state, the leadership of the working class, the forms of social property, and called for a system of soviets (councils)...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dissolved on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme...

Executive Committee (CEC) of the Congress of Soviets (between 1922 and 1938) as the highest organs of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...