soviet

Revolutionary workers' council

A soviet is a workers' council, the basic unit of government in the former USSR.

The term comes from a Russian word meaning council or advice.

Local soviets elected delegates to regional bodies, which in turn sent representatives upward to the Supreme Soviet.

Outside historical contexts, soviet occasionally describes any workers' council or collective governing body.

The factory soviet voted to strike. (Capitalized Soviet refers to the USSR or its people.)

council

assembly

Constructing from components

Categories

poster stylesart deco, vintage, retro, propaganda, movie poster
socialist institutionscentral committee, socialist republic, workers party, party congress, central planning
Soviet bureaucracyapparatchik, bureaucrat, commissar, commissariat, functionary
governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
legislaturesparliament, legislature, senate, House of Commons, Senate
local governancemayors, local government, local councils, town meeting, councils

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political system

Private ownership supporter

cold war alignment

Of Euro-American civilization

economic system

Private ownership supporter

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