Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Members of the "Unofficial Commission of Hearst Newspapers" completed a "long and thorough" tour of Russia with a week-end conference with M. Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Union (of Socialist Soviet Republics) Central Executive Committee...
...Union Council of People's Commissaries is in effect a Cabinet headed by M. Vladimir Ilich Ulianov-Lenin (portfolio filled ad interim by Kamenev) as President. The Council is directly under the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee, which has the power of revising any of its decisions. The Council is, however, also responsible to the Union Central Executive Committee and the Union Congress of Soviets, to which it is obliged to render reports...
...Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee is composed of a Chairman (M. Kalinin, popularly supposed to be President of Soviet Russia), a Secretary and 15 members. Although the Presidium has power to make war, confer decorations, ratify peace treaties, receive the credentials of foreign diplomatic representatives, etc., it is in its turn under the thumb of the Union Congress of Soviets. However, between the sessions of the Executive Committee, business is carried on by the Presidium...