Soviets Endorse Nationalities Policy

Third All-Russia Congress of Soviets, Resolution Endorsing the Nationalities Policy of the Soviet Government. January 28, 1918

The All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies hails and fully approves the nationalities policy of the Government of People's Commissars aimed at implementing the principle of self-determination of nations understood in the spirit of self-determination of the working people of all the nationalities of Russia. Specifically, the Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies endorses the decrees of the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Executive Committee on Finland and Armenia.

The Congress expresses its deep conviction that further steps of Soviet power in this direction will contribute to the transformation of the former Russian Empire, which kept the various nationalities within its confines by oppression and coercion, into a fraternal union of freely federated Soviet republics of Russia.

Source: Decrees of the Soviet Government (Moscow: Institute of Marxism-Leninism, 1957), Vol. I, p. 351.

1917

EVENTS February Revolution Formation of the Soviets April Crisis Revolution in the Army July Days Kornilov Affair Bolsheviks Seize Power First Bolshevik Decrees Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest Litovsk
FOUR KINDS OF STATES Communist Party Building Economic Apparatus Building the Soviets Red Guard into Army State Security
DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY Depopulation of the Cities Food Supply Conflict with the Church Death of the Old Culture Destruction of the Left The Empire Falls
CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY New Letters and Dates Culture and Revolution The New Woman Workers Organization Peasant Revolution Organs of the Press Raising Socialist Youth