Talk:Government of the Soviet Union

Major issues
First, the intro does not addresses an imporrtant issue of the changes in the government structure over time. What is more, it actually states the insignificant last year of the exisrence of the state. Formally this may be correct, but gives a wrong historical impression.

Second, the article is confusing the terms government and governance. In particular, it speaks of "three branches". Problems:
 * three branches are of the state, not of the government. (If you don't know what I am talking about, read more wikipedia :-) In other words, the article has a wrong title (or wrong content; depending how you look at it :-)
 * regardless article title, this "brancging" follows the western cliche; Soviet Union had significant peculiarities, not addressed.

Third, it fails miserably to demonstrate the permeative power of the CPSU.

Fourth, the article is one big original research: it is based almost exclusively on primary sources, and as such, given the nature of the USSR, cannot give a balanced picture.

There are also quite a few minor issues, but the four above are most critical to real understanding of the topic. Lovok Sovok (talk) 17:51, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know anything about this topic, I only created a missing page. fix it yourself......--TIAYN (talk) 18:19, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Please don't take this personally. The article is basically OK and does fill the gap. Unfortunately I don't have time to fix serious things myself. Lovok Sovok (talk) 19:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not, I really don't know much about this topic. That's why the predominant source is the 1977 Soviet Constitution, and not a teritary source. I don't know this topic, and as said previously, my goal was to create a missing page. --TIAYN (talk) 19:20, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

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