Soviet Decree

Decrees (Russian: декреты) were legislative acts of the highest Soviet institutions, primarily of the Council of People's Commissars (the highest executive body) and of VTsIK (the highest legislative body between sessions of the Congress of Soviets), issued between 1917 and 1924. Such acts issued after 1924 are referred to as Decisions (Russian: постановление) or Ukases in Soviet sources.

These decrees under Lenin's first government laid the basis for socially progressive policies in the Soviet Union such as universal education, universal healthcare, participatory democracy, the extension of legal rights for women and ethnic minorities.

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