Soviet Republic

A Soviet Republic, a republic ruled by soviets (workers' councils), may refer to one of the following:

  • Bolshevik Russia and the Russian SFSR after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the Russian Civil War;
  • The Soviet Union as a whole;
  • Any of the Republics of the Soviet Union;
  • Soviet (council)

    Soviets (singular: soviet; Russian: сове́т, Russian pronunciation: [sɐˈvʲɛt], literally "council" in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state.

    Etymology

    “Soviet” is derived from a Russian word signifying council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord, ultimately deriving from the Proto-Slavic verbal stem of *větiti "to talk, speak". The word "sovietnik" means councillor.

    A number of organizations in Russian history were called "council" (Russian: сове́т). For example, in Imperial Russia, the State Council, which functioned from 1810 to 1917, was referred to as a Council of Ministers after the revolt of 1905.

    Russian Empire

    Workers' Councils

    According to the official historiography of the Soviet Union, the first worker's council (soviet) was formed in May 1905 in Ivanovo (north-east of Moscow) during the 1905 Russian Revolution (Ivanovsky Soviet). However, in his memoirs, the Russian Anarchist Volin claims that he witnessed the beginnings of the St Petersburg Soviet in January 1905. The Russian workers were largely organized at the turn of the 20th century, leading to a government-sponsored trade union leadership. In 1905, as the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) increased the strain on Russian industrial production, the workers began to strike and rebel. The soviets represented an autonomous workers' movement, one that broke free from the government's oversight of workers' unions. Soviets sprang up throughout the industrial centers of Russia, usually organized at the factory level. The soviets disappeared after the Revolution of 1905, but re-emerged under socialist leadership during the revolutions of 1917.

    Soviet democracy

    Soviet democracy (sometimes council democracy) was a political system in the Soviet Union, in which workers' councils called "soviets" (Russian for "council"), consisting of delegates, formed organs of legislative and executive power. The soviets begin at the local level and onto a national parliament-like assembly. According to Vladimir Lenin and other Marxist theorists, the soviets represent the democratic will of the working class and are thus the embodiment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. However, the councils were filled by members of the Soviet Communist Party and completely subordinated to its leadership. According to historian Robert Conquest, this political system represented "a set of phantom institutions and arrangements which put a human face on the hideous realities: a model constitution adopted in a worst period of terror and guaranteeing human rights, elections in which there was only one candidate, and in which 99 percent voted; a parliament at which no hand was ever raised in opposition or abstention."

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    The Conversation 18 Feb 2025
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    Radio Free Europe 18 Feb 2025
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    The Times/The Sunday Times 17 Feb 2025
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    Zelenskyy says Russia will ‘wage war on Nato’ if US support for Ukraine wanes

    AOL 16 Feb 2025
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    Zelensky: ‘We believe that Putin will wage war against NATO’

    The Hill 16 Feb 2025
    “We know for sure that he is preparing that from the territory of Belarus this year ... I do not know when he prepares it ... And the fact that we receive information that he will think of the invasion against former Soviet republics ... His remarks came as U.S.

    US seeks to ‘break’ Russia-Iran alliance: Envoy

    Press TV 16 Feb 2025
    ... to “cede” territory to Russia without officially recognizing Russian control, signaling a potential shift in Washington's approach to the ongoing conflict between Russia and the ex-Soviet republic.

    Trump blames Biden’s NATO promise for Russia-Ukraine conflict

    Blitz 15 Feb 2025
    I don’t see that happening,” Trump stated ... Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has expanded eastward, incorporating former Warsaw Pact states and ex-Soviet republics ... ....

    Analysis: Trump cedes to Russia on Ukraine, but the bigger victim may be NATO

    Colorado Springs Gazette 14 Feb 2025
    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s siding with Russia in its war against Ukraine not only imperils the former Soviet republic, but also may undermine eight decades of transatlantic security and force Europe to go it alone ....

    Moldova summons Russia's ambassador to protest 'new and serious violation' of its airspace

    Anadolu Agency 13 Feb 2025
    Relations between Russia and Moldova, a former Soviet republic, have deteriorated since 2003 and have completely deteriorated since President Maia Sandu, a pro-Western figure, was elected in 2020.

    'They're drinking vodka!' Expert blasts Trump's deal as a 'great day for Moscow'

    Raw Story 13 Feb 2025
    ... as a decades-old agreement that broke up the Soviet Union. "This is a palpable harm to American national security," he said, and leaves every other former republic in the Soviet Union "vulnerable.".
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