Council of Defence, the Glossary

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1. 30 relations: Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Council of Labor and Defense, Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Cuban Missile Crisis, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov, Government of the Soviet Union, Kliment Voroshilov, Konstantin Chernenko, Lazar Kaganovich, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Minister of Defence (Soviet Union), National Defence Council (East Germany), National Security Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, President of Russia, President of the Soviet Union, Revolutionary Military Council, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Security Council of Russia, Sergey Akhromeyev, Soviet Armed Forces, State Defense Committee, Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Vyacheslav Molotov, Yuri Andropov, 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union.

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (Александр Михайлович Василевский) (30 September 1895 – 5 December 1977) was a Soviet career-officer in the Red Army who attained the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943.

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Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the highest organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between two congresses.

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Council of Labor and Defense

The Council of Labor and Defense (Russian: Совет труда и обороны (СТО) Sovet truda i oborony, Latin acronym: STO), first established as the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense in November 1918, was an agency responsible for the central management of the economy and production of military materiel in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and later in the Soviet Union. Council of Defence and Council of Labor and Defense are government of the Soviet Union.

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Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union

The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (p; sometimes abbreviated to Sovmin or referred to as the Soviet of Ministers), was the de jure government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), comprising the main executive and administrative agency of the USSR from 1946 until 1991. Council of Defence and Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union are government of the Soviet Union.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

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Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (a; 189618 June 1974) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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Government of the Soviet Union

The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet.

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Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Климент Ефремович Ворошилов; Klyment Okhrimovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Клим Ворошилов; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin-era.

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Konstantin Chernenko

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Lazar Kaganovich

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович; – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates.

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Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

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Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (Министр обороны СССР) refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the socialist/communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1992.

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National Defence Council (East Germany)

The National Defense Council of the German Democratic Republic (German: Nationaler Verteidigungsrat der DDR - NVR) was created in 1960 as the supreme state body of the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany or the GDR) in charge of national defense matters, including mobilization planning.

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National Security Commission of the Chinese Communist Party

The National Security Commission (CNSC) is a commission of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responsible for national security work and coordination. Council of Defence and national Security Commission of the Chinese Communist Party are national security councils.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.

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Nikolai Bulganin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Булга́нин; – 24 February 1975) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.

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President of Russia

The president of the Russian Federation (Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the executive head of state of Russia.

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President of the Soviet Union

The President of the Soviet Union (Prezident Sovetskogo Soyuza), officially the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Президент Союза СоветскихСоциалистическихРеспублик), abbreviated as president of the USSR (Президент СССР), was the head of state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 15 March 1990 to 25 December 1991. Council of Defence and president of the Soviet Union are government of the Soviet Union.

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Revolutionary Military Council

The Revolutionary Military Council (Revolutionary Military Council), sometimes called the Revolutionary War Council or Revvoyensoviet (Реввоенсовет), was the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union. Council of Defence and Revolutionary Military Council are military of the Soviet Union.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Security Council of Russia

The Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF or Sovbez; Sovet bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (SBRF)) is a constitutional consultative body of the Russian president that supports the president's decision-making on national security affairs and matters of strategic interest. Council of Defence and security Council of Russia are national security councils.

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Sergey Akhromeyev

Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev (Серге́й Фёдорович Ахроме́ев; May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991) was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983).

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Soviet Armed Forces

The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Council of Defence and Soviet Armed Forces are military of the Soviet Union.

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State Defense Committee

The State Defense Committee (translit) was an extraordinary organ of state power in the Soviet Union during the German-Soviet War, also called the Great Patriotic War, with complete state power in the country.

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Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (r) was, from 1936 to 1991, the highest body of state authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and based on the principle of unified power was the only branch of government in the Soviet state. Council of Defence and Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union are government of the Soviet Union.

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Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies.

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Yuri Andropov

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (– 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taking office in late 1982 and serving until his death in 1984.

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1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union

The 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union, officially the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was the constitution of the Soviet Union adopted on 7 October 1977.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Defence

Also known as Council of Defence (Soviet Union), Defense Council (Soviet Union), Defense Council of the USSR.