Developments in Central Administration
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- Developments in Central Administration
- Continuity
- Under the Tsars:
- Council of Ministers was the main law-making and admin body. It was also the link between the government and the Tsars
- Imperial Council of State advised the Tsar on legal and financial matters
- A committee of ministers (advisory body)
- The Senate was the supreme court and final court of appeal for major legal matters
- Under the Communists:
- All-Russian Congress of Soviets and Central Executive Committee (CEC) was the main law-making and admin body
- CEC was divided into the Politburo, the Orgburo, and the Ogburo
- The Council of Peoples' Commissars (Sovnarkom) were made up of the government ministers
- For example, Stalin was initially the minister of national minorities
- In theory, the Sovnarkom was only answerable to the CEC
- All-Russian Congress of Soviets and Central Executive Committee (CEC) was the main law-making and admin body
- Under the Tsars:
- Change
- Nicolas II
- October Manifesto 1905
- This was the response to the 1905 revolution, and it promised an elected assembly
- It lead to the abandonnment of the Committee of Ministers , and its duties were divided into two chambers
- The State Council (previously the Imperial Council of State) which was the unelected upper chamber
- The Duma was the elected lower chamber
- The Fundamental Laws of 1906
- Nicolas didn't trust the Duma to always support his policies
- These new laws would make the Duma completely accountable to the Tsar.
- What was originally a major concession, turned into autocratic power in disguise
- October Manifesto 1905
- Stalin
- 1936 Constitution created new representative bodies for the people
- the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the main law-making body
- the Soviet of the Union had representatives from the whole of the USSR
- the Soviet of Nationalities had representatives from different regional groups
- Article 126
- These new bodies didn't change the fact that, as stated in this article, the Communist Party remained in complete control
- 1936 Constitution created new representative bodies for the people
- Nicolas II
- Continuity
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