Decrees (Russian: декреты) were legislative acts of the highest Soviet institutions, primarily of the Council of People's Commissars (the highest executive...

Consent decree Edict Fatwa Firman Official Communications of the Chinese Empire Memorial to the throne Proclamation Rule by decree Rescript Soviet Decree Ukase...

The Decree on Land (Russian: Декретъ о землѣ), written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers'...

of the Soviet Union of May 5, 1934" (in Russian). Wikisource. 2010-09-04. Retrieved 2012-02-20. "Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the...

colonization of virgin lands of the Soviet Union. This role was specifically mentioned in the first Soviet decrees about involuntary labor camps. Compared...

Wilhelm Keitel on 13 May 1941. The decree declared that the upcoming Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, would be a war of extermination...

The Decree on Peace, written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the 8 November [O...

Russians in Toruń Soviet Decree 50,000 workers passed a resolution in favour of Bolshevik demand for transfer of power to the soviets. Russian: Октябрьская...

Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union. The military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was established by a decree of the Soviet Cabinet, the Council of...

Tatars were restored with a decree dated September 5, 1967, but they were not allowed to return until the last days of the Soviet Union. The Crimean ASSR...

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union issued a decree transferring the Crimean Oblast from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

subsequently been formed. In East Germany, the party was merged, by Soviet decree, with remnants of the Social Democratic Party to form the Socialist...

Citations Decree of the "Presidium of the Supreme Soviet" of 16 January 1943 Decree of the "Presidium of the Supreme Soviet" of 9 October 1943 Decree of the...

революционные трибуналы) in Soviet Russia were established soon after the October Revolution by the Soviet "Decree of the Soviet of Peoples' Commissars Concerning...

was a military decoration of the Soviet Union. It was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6 April 1930 but its...

People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 20 January [O.S. 2 February] 1918. The decree came into force on 23 January [O...

increased in the Soviet Far East, causing 50,000 Korean emigrants to flee to Manchuria and Korea. On 13 April 1928, a Soviet decree was passed stipulating...

Decree time (Russian: декретное время) refers to the changes introduced to the Soviet Union time system by a Sovnarkom decree of 16 June 1930. By this...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922...

The Decree on the Abolition of Estates and Civil Ranks was a decree approved by the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets of...

Party of the Soviet Union (undersigned by Molotov and Stalin) on November 17, 1938. It officially marked the end of the Great Purge. The decree declared that...

the Soviet Union (until 1946 the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union). In 1991, by the decree of the President of the Russian Soviet Federative...

4 October after the armed disbanding of the Supreme Soviet) to 12 December 1993, rule by decree (ukase) was imposed in Russia by President Boris Yeltsin...

of the decree to Leon Trotsky. Trotsky also claimed that it was he who wrote the draft to decree. In this decree, the author requested "Soviets and revolutionary...

(some claim 19 October) 1918 decree of the Soviet government, establishing the Labour Commune of Volga Germans. This gave Soviet Germans a special status...

repatriation commissions. Death sentences were rare. On 7 July 1945, a Supreme Soviet decree pardoned all former prisoners of war who had not collaborated. Another...

January 1954, Malenkov (via Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union issuing a decree) transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR...

masse. Hero of the Soviet Union Abdraim Reshidov was among the first Crimean Tatars who tried to return to Crimea upon seeing the decree, but unlike many...

No. 1099, this all encompassing decree distanced modern Russian awards from their Soviet roots. Presidential Decree No. 1631 of December 16, 2011 amended...

account of 40 years of its foundation, the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet decree decided to honour the institute with the name of I.V. Stalin. From that...