Talk:Congress of Soviets

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I deleted a sentence from the 1917-1936 section :

All members were chosen by the local communist leaders, and then "approved" in single-party, single-candidate elections.

As, at least during the first few years after the revolution, many soviet delegates were from other parties, or "non-party". See for instance :

The damage done to the revolution by the rift between Bolsheviks and non-party workers was clearly illustrated in the soviet elections of April-May 1921.(...)The industrial workers, for whom the Bolsheviks claimed to speak, deserted the party. They sent an overwhelming majority of non-party delegates to the soviet, along with a few Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries and anarchists.

Notes from a Revolution Dying

--Ilestre (talk) 14:53, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congresses of People's Deputies is different structure

Yeah, they smillar to Congress of Soviets of 1917-1937, but thre is still major difference: Congress of Soviets elected by regional legislatures (soviets) (from bottom to top), and CPD is elected directly by citizens and then elects several institutions such as Supreme Soviet (from top to bottom). Split? Seryo93 (talk) 18:32, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Focus of article

Surely this article should focus on what a Congress of Soviets is, and then provide links to specific instances such as the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union, etc. Leutha (talk) 13:32, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]