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The Democratic Soviet Union (DUSSR), or just the Soviet Union, is a marxist state stretching over northern and central Asia, and parts of eastern Europe. DUSSR is a democracy that combines multi-party parlamentarism and council direct democracy. Countries that make up the union are: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic States and Soviet Central Asia. The capital is Moskva in Russia.

History

The Democratic Soviet union was formed in february 1917 by the Russian Provisional Goverment. The goverment decided togheter with the soviets to construct a dual power. The Soviet would have the local power and be ruled by direct democracy in their respective regions, while the goverment would be elected as representatives and have control over national questions, like foreign policy, taxes etc.

In order to avoid further conflict and chaos in the union, the cadets and the socialist revolutionaries formed a goverment togheter with the mensheviks. In march the goverment signed the peace of brest-litovsk and thereby ending the war in the east. These three main parties realised that they needed to set aside their differences if the new democratic state were to survive. So they choose to compromise and pass their parties most important question.

In spring the soviets and the goverment passed an agrarian reform whom gave nobility-owned soil and land to the peasants, the socialist revolutionaries most important goal. This changed the wealth on the countryside dramatically, since the peasants now inherited much of the wealth from the nobility and was liberated from the taxes they had to pay to them. With larger amount of mark to farm, the peasantry could finally live of their own work.

In June, the mensheviks were allowed to create their landnationalisation. All large companies and industries came under workers control and state ownership. The workers had the direct control over their workplace and they decided togheter how much they should work, what they should produce etc. The russian state held somewhat power in companies vital for the country, such as oil and gas industry.

The Cadet Party passed several liberal reforms in autumn 1917. Free speech, free association, universal suffrage, freedom of press and economic support for small and medium-sized bussiness. . Due to the large support for labour unions, the workers of these companies enjoyed far-going rights and security.

In order to prevent poverty and increase the welfare of the people, a strong welfare society were created with free education, healtcare, economic support for the poor etc. A federal, decentralised state were created in order to preserve direct democracy and the peoples influence. Ethnic and religious minorities were given rights of expressing their culture and religion in peace and without discrimination.

Economy

The competition between the workers owned and private owned companies were said to fuel the DUSSR:s industrialisation and modernisation. The concurrens were said to increase the technological development of the nation. But in fear of losing their jobs, some workers owned companies refused to develop technology. In some cases, the state had to step in force the company to aid the development. Altought, as Russia stabilised, this action became increasingly rare, as the different worker-owned companies competed with each other, which forced techological and scientifical improvments.

The failure of the bolsheviks and what changed history

Since the goverment signed a peace-treaty with the central powers and passed the land reform, which they in reality did not, Lenin and the bolsheviks were never given an opportunity to use a massive discontent with the provisional goverment, and therefore remaining in minority both in the provisional goverment and the soviets. Since democracy remained and the anti-socalist parts of the russian population saw thier will being put forward by the cadets, a civil war between the goverment and the white army never occur in the same scale. The vast majority of the inhabitants of the union supports the new state.