State Council of the Soviet Union

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State Council of the USSR
Государственный Совет СССР
RSFSR, Soviet Union

Following the August

Vice President of the Soviet Union had been abolished following the failed August Coup that very same year.[1]

Inter-republican Economic Committee

With the central government's authority greatly weakened by the failed coup, Gorbachev

Soviet economy.[3] On 28 August 1991 the Supreme Soviet temporarily gave the COMSE the same authority as the Cabinet of Ministers,[4] and Silayev became the Soviet Union's de facto Prime Minister.[5] Yet, COMSE was quickly surpassed in authority by the Inter-republican Economic Committee of the Soviet Union (IEC), also led by Silayev. Its function was to coordinate economic policy across the Soviet Union. As Chairman of both COMSE and the IEC, Silayev presided over a quickly disintegrating Soviet Union.[6]

When he first took office, Silayev wanted to reduce the powers of the central government and give more powers to the

European Energy Charter on 16/17 December 1991 with 35 other countries, but this was undermined by the charter also being signed by nine of the twelve remaining republics.[11]

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

On 19 December COMSE was dissolved by a presidential Russian SFSR decree.[5] Оn 25 December Gorbachev announced his resignation from the post of President of the USSR in connection with the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.[12] Accordingly, the union government ceased to exist.[13] The next day, 26 December 1991 the Soviet Union was formally dissolved by the Council of Republics.

References

  1. Government of the USSR: Gorbachev, Mikhail (1991-09-05). ЗАКОН СССР: Об органах государственной власти и управления Союза ССР в переходный период
    [Law: About state governing bodies of USSR in a transition period On the bodies of state authority and administration of the USSR in Transition]. sssr.su (in Russian).
  2. ISBN 1-59213-362-2
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  3. ISBN 0-415-07580-7
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  4. ^ Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 28 августа 1991 г. № 2367-I «О недоверии Кабинету Министров СССР»
  5. ^ a b c Staff writer. "Silaev, Ivan Stepanovich" [Силаев, Иван Степанович]. praviteli.org. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7546-3982-4
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  7. ^ Shevchenko 2004, p. 66.
  8. ISBN 978-0-415-41527-9
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  9. ISBN 978-0-415-41527-9
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  10. ^ Договор об экономическом сообществе // Правительственный вестник. — 1991. — октябрь. — № 42. — С. 1—3.
  11. ^ Hansard 19 December 1991 c242W
  12. ^ Горбачев Михаил Сергеевич // praviteli.org
  13. ^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1964–1991)". elisa.net. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
Political offices
Preceded by State Council of the Soviet Union
5 September 1991-26 December 1991 		Succeeded by
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