First All-Union Congress of Soviets

First All-Union Congress of Soviets
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Stepan Dudnik. Signing an Agreement on the Formation of the Soviet Union
Overview
Legislative bodyCongress of Soviets of the Soviet Union
JurisdictionSoviet Union
Meeting placeBolshoi Theatre
TermDecember 30, 1922
Chairman of the CongressMikhail Kalinin
Congress SecretaryAvel Yenukidze
Party controlRussian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The First All-Union Congress of Soviets (Russian: I Всесоюзный съезд Советов, IPA: [ˈpʲervɨj fsʲɪsɐˈjuznɨj sjest sɐˈvʲetəf]) was a congress of representatives of Soviets of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies, held on December 30, 1922, in Moscow. The congress was attended by 2,215 delegates (1,727 from the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, 364 from the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, 91 from the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and 33 from the Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic). Kalinin was elected chairman of the congress, but Vladimir Lenin, who was not present at the congress due to illness, was elected honorary chairman of the congress. Over 90% of the delegates were members of the Russian Communist Party; two were left-wing social federalists of the Caucasus, one was an anarchist, and two were members of the Jewish Social Democratic Party.

The congress approved the Declaration and the Treaty on the Formation of a New State – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Four states have united in the Soviet Union: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. In addition, the congress elected the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

Order of the day

  1. Consideration of the Declaration on the Formation of the Soviet Union. Speaker – Joseph Stalin.
  2. Consideration of the Treaty on the Formation of the Soviet Union. Speaker – Joseph Stalin.
  3. Election of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. Speaker – Avel Yenukidze.

Congress decisions

Elected at the congress

Accepted documents

  1. On Approval of the Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the Soviet Union
  2. About the Foundation of the House of the Soviet Union
  3. On the Establishment of the Central People's Institute of Agriculture
  4. On the Celebration of the Foundation Day of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Main outcome of the congress

The Congress made official the formal foundation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was this congress that formalized its foundation by the passage of the Union Treaty, which would serve as a provisional constitution until the passage of a proper constitution for the new federal republic by the Congress.

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