25 ottob 1917 anni - Sovnarkom established

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- Powerful all Bolshevik cabinet of ministers in the 1917 government
- Title of 'Minister' renamed 'People's Commissars'
- 'Cabinet' renamed Sovnarkom
- Consisted of 15 Bolshevik leaders, each of whom represented a specific governmental department
- For instance, Trotsky was Commissar for Foreign Affairs
- Sovnarkom theoretically needed approval from the Congress of Soviets, but in actual fact, they acted quite independently
- Sovnarkom insisted purely of Bolsheviks as Lenin believed only Bolsheviks could lead
- Similar power to the tsarist regime but was more of an oligarchy than a sole monarch

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