Question

What is a Soviet? Why did the workers of Russia form a Soviet?


(1+2=3 marks)
Class 9 History​

Answer 1

Soviet is an organization and governmental body, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state.

Soviet Union. The soviets formed as a grassroots effort to practice direct democracy. Russian Marxists made them a medium for organizing against the state, and in 1917, between the February and October Revolutions, the Petrograd Soviet became a powerful force. The Bolsheviks used the slogan "All power to the soviets!"