HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Abdicate
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Revolution
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Soviets
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Duma
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Detailed explanation-1: -They originated in lands of the Russian Empire (including Congress Poland and Latvia) in 1905, with the workers’ councils (soviets) acting as labor committees which coordinated strike activities throughout the cities due to repression of trade unions.
Detailed explanation-2: -First Congress. The First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers ‘and Soldiers’ Deputies (June 16 – July 7, 1917) was convened by the National Conference of the Soviets. It was dominated by pro-government parties (Socialist-Revolutionaries, etc.) and confirmed the supremacy of the Russian Provisional Government.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Delegates was established on 3 June 1917 at the Leeds Convention held in Leeds, England. The founding conference was attended by 1, 150 delegates. It was inspired by the events of the Russian February Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -However, this system was kept with minor changes until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The 1936 constitution defined the Council of People’s Commissars as the Soviet government, and conferring upon it the role of the “highest executive and administrative organ of state power".