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The First Proletarian Government

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  • Rigby, T. H.

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My title is plagiarized from an article written by Trotsky's friend Adolf Ioffe for the second anniversary of the October Revolution.The ‘first proletarian government’ was not the Council of People's Commissars, approved by the Second Congress of Soviets at the time of the seizure of power ‘for the administration of the country up to the convening of the Constituent Assembly’, and described in the enabling decree as ‘the Temporary Worker and Peasant Government’. Before long the Council of People's Commissars (CPC), under Lenin's chairmanship, was indeed to become the key executive body in the Soviet regime, but some weeks were needed to acquire the necessary staff and procedures and even longer to establish effective control over the inherited machinery of administration and to convert it to the CPC's own purposes.

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  • Rigby, T. H., 1974. "The First Proletarian Government," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(1), pages 37-51, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:4:y:1974:i:01:p:37-51_00
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