Key features of the USSR

Question 1

Constitution

Answer 1

• outlined basic rights and freedoms
• all adults given voting rights
• guaranteed freedom of conscience and religion

Question 2

Parliament

Question 3

The communist party

Question 4

constitution

Answer 4

• basic rights and freedom
• all adults given voting rights
• freedom of conscience and religion

Question 5

parliament

Answer 5

• All-Union Congress of Soviet only met couple days a year
• elected there Central Executive Committee, a smaller body who met more regularly and had more power and they appointed the cabinet of the USSR (SOVNARKOM)

Question 6

the communist party

Answer 6

• All-Union Congress elected Party members
• Top of the party: Politburo (senior communist who decide party policy)
• USSR is a one-party state and members of the Politburo were members of the SOVNARKOM