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1936

Constitution of Russia

Stalin, Joseph · General Secretary of CPSU

The Supreme Soviet elects a Presidium the chairman of which becomes the Head of State.

Constitution of Russia

Stalin, Joseph · General Secretary of CPSU

The Supreme Soviet is elected for 4 years and meets twice a year.

Constitution of Russia

Stalin, Joseph · General Secretary of CPSU

The VTsIK, All-Union Central Exec Comm of the soviets becomes the Supreme Soviet.

Constitution of Russia

Bukharin, Nikolai · Editor of Izvestiya

Pens the new constitution

1946

Constitution of Russia

Stalin, Joseph · General Secretary of CPSU

Founds the Council of Minister's

1948

Constitution of Russia

Stalin, Joseph · London · General Secretary of CPSU

Authorizes the Lander & provisional assemblies to open a constituent assembly

1961

Constitution of Russia

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich · Moscow · First Secretary of CPSU

The Central Committee plenum adopts a new Party programme replacing that of 1919

1987

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Proposes elections for party officials, a practice which is soon adopted

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Pravda announces larger constituencies & more candidates than seats in local elections

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

At the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Gorbachev presents his "basic theses," which laid the political foundation of economic reform for the remainder of the existence of the Soviet Union

1988

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

Glasnost leads to the USSR Supreme Soviet dissenting with the Politburo & Central Comm

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

The Supreme Soviet agrees to the foundation of the Congress of Peoples Deputies. The Supreme Soviet abolishes itself. The Congress of Peoples Deputies will have 2,250 members. The Congress of Peoples Deputies will elect the Supreme Soviet. The Congress of Peoples Deputies will be elected except for 750 nominated by the CPSU

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

The Congress of Peoples Deputies will elect the Supreme Soviet

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

The Supreme Soviet dissolves itself. The Supreme Soviet approved formation of a Congress of Peoples Deputies, which constitutional amendments had established as the Soviet Unions new legislative body

1989

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

Yeltsins presence in the Supreme Soviets Chamber of Peoples Deputies provided a focus for the reformist minority, the legislature becomes a more pluralist body than Gorbachev intends. The March 1989 election of the Congress of Peoples Deputies marked the first time that voters of the Soviet Union ever chose the membership of a national legislative body

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

The USSR Supreme Soviet is replaced by the USSR Congress of Peoples Deputies

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

The initial session of the Congress of Peoples Deputies. Gorbachev was elected without opposition to the chairmanship of the new Supreme Soviet; then the Congress of Peoples Deputies elected a large majority of old-style party apparatchiks to fill the membership of its new legislative body

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

In the summer of 1989, the first opposition bloc in the Congress of Peoples Deputies formed under the name of the Interregional Group

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

The USSR Supreme Soviet is replaced by the USSR Congress of Peoples Deputies. In front of the Central Committtee says Russia must be restructured

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

The Head of the Presidium officially is recognized as the President of Russia

1990

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

The Cental Committee of the CP in USSR votes to end the CP political monopoly

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Lithuania declares independence in accordance with its constitution of 1938

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

Sworn in as the 1st executive President of the USSR

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Russian Parliament votes its laws take precedence over the USSR

Constitution of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

The Russian Federation declares itself a sovereign state

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