[brown9-2]

I am asking this out of genuine interest and lack of knowledge - was there a representative legislative body in the USSR in the 1920s?

[dragonwriter]

I believe the Congress of Soviets was an indirectly elected representative legislative body elected by the local Soviets.

[flyinRyan]

Pre-WWI, Russia was a feudal system. After the revolution, pretty much everything was done via some kind of parliamentary procedures. Granted, Lenin was a bully and hammered through the things he wanted but he largely did it via parliamentary consensus. At least at first.

[nknighthb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Soviets_of_the_Sovi...