| Lenin's State and Revolution champions the soviets, or workers' councils, created spontaneously during the 1905 revolution in Russia, as the basis for a future workers' state. |
| It took Trotsky to persuade him that the rising must be called in the name of the soviets, which represented the different currents of the workers' movement. |
| The soviets got to the far side of the Moon first, and the mystery they found remains. |
| Highly democratic workers' councils, known as soviets, sprung up in workplaces and the army. |
| Legislative power, for its part, was vested in the USSR Supreme Soviet and in the constituent soviets of the republics. |
| In 1948, however, the Soviets refused to participate any longer in the quadripartite administration of Germany. |
