![]() ![]() In the USSR, Until 1936 the national soviet (at that time the Congress of Soviets) was not elected by the regional soviets, but rather by the district soviets. This elective process of a group of soviets electing the council above it continues until the national soviet, which is the supreme governing body of the nation. Each soviet has legislative-executive power over the territory it governs. Lastly, the provincial soviets then choose their delegates for the regional soviet. These district soviets in turn elect their provincial soviet. ![]() The local soviets choose their delegates for their district soviet. The idea is identical to that of the Paris Commune. This body holds both legislative and executive power for that city. The process begins when the workers of a city elect their local soviet. ![]() According to Vladimir Lenin and other Marxist theorists, the soviets represent the democratic will of the working class and are thus the embodiment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The soviets begin at the local level and onto a national parliament-like assembly. Soviet democracy (sometimes council democracy) was a political system in the Soviet Union, in which workers' councils called "soviets" (Russian for "council"), consisting of delegates, formed organs of legislative and executive power. ![]()
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