Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first speech to the 1,143 people who make up the main governmental body of the Soviet Union...
...deputies to the Council of Union, elected for four-year terms on the basis of one for each 300,000 population...
Nobody expects an opposition to challenge Stalin's speech. Deputies may discuss, argue, criticize specific Government acts, but not party policy. But circulating back to their union republics, autonomous republics, provinces and national regions at the end of their session, they are a part of the vast official, governmental, administrative and bureaucratic apparatus that translates policy to the 170,126,000. Their Presidium of 37 members elected at a joint session is theoretically the highest executive organ of State power, the interpreter of laws, donor of decorations, holder of the right of pardon. They form into the body...
When they called their first All Union Congress of Soviets in 1922-which delegates had trouble in reaching-steel production had fallen 96%; mining, 98%-agriculture...
Four years before, a homely, dark-eyed, colorless girl named Fanny Kaplan stepped up to Lenin when he finished speaking at Michelson's factory in Moscow, shot him in the lungs and neck. On the eve of the second All Union Congress, Lenin died, the conflicting groups he had held together split apart...