Soviet (council)

Uncommon card · No. 108732

A soviet (Russian: совет, romanized: sovet, IPA: [sɐˈvʲet] , lit. 'council') is a representative workers' council that follows a socialist ideology, particularly in the context of the Russian Revolution. In the expanded meaning of "workers', peasants' and soldiers' councils", and later "councils of deputies", the soviets acted as the foundation of the form of government of Russian SFSR and the Soviet Union, and influenced the Makhnovshchina. The first soviets were established during the 1905 Revolution in the late Russian Empire. In 1917, following the February Revolution, there emerged a state of dual power between the Russian Provisional Government and the soviets. This ended later that year with the October Revolution, during which the Second Congress of Soviets proclaimed itself the supreme governing body of the country. The governmental bodies on various levels were formally named "Soviets of People's Deputies", colloquially "soviets of deputies" or "sovdeps". For this reason Soviet...

Read on Wikipedia · Image User Kristallstadt on en.wikipedia, Public domain