| Reagan learned this in the midst of negotiating historic arms-reduction treaties with the soviets at the height of the Cold War. |
| Highly democratic workers' councils, known as soviets, sprung up in workplaces and the army. |
| Of course, in so far as that Government submits to the will of the soviets? |
| In early 1922 a decree ordered local soviets to organize the removal of all precious church items. |
| Local soviets met rarely and at irregular intervals, betraying their subordinate position to their Executive Committees. |
| Legislative power, for its part, was vested in the USSR Supreme Soviet and in the constituent soviets of the republics. |
