Catolicavirtual empire

In 1922, the Union Socialist Republics (USSR) was created.

• POLITICAL ORGANISATION: USSR put into practice Marxist ideas (communism) with the establishment of a proletariat dictatorship and the characteristics were:

• Political power was held by the soviets which had the power to make laws and to choose the people who held executive power.

• The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) represented the interests of the workers.

• ECONOMY: allowed some capitalist systems and peasants could sell their produce, and small private artisan and trading companies were set up. The state controlled the important sectors, for example large industries, foreign trade and banks.

• TERRITORIAL ORGANISATION: The USSR was a federal state and the federal system resolved the problems of former nationalities of the Russian Empire, as it respected their autonomy and right to self-determination.THE SOVIET STATE

  PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME SOVIET

  The president is the head of state

  CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE´S COMMISSARS

  Executive power

  Head of government and ministers

  SUPREME SOVIET

  Legislative power of USSR

  SOVIET OF NATIONALITIESSOVIET OF THE UNION

  Territorial representatives of                                      Representatives of citizens

      the federal republics.                                                        of the USSR.