Abstract
The article analyzes the role and tasks of the Soviet workers' council in the process of establishing the Soviet power in the western regions of Ukrainian SSR in 1939–1941. The paper touches upon the issue of the gradual formation of the Soviet branch of power in the region and its staffing, dependence of the representative branch of power and its executive structures from the party committees of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party (VKP (b)) and Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolsheviks) (CP(b)U), as well as the highest state authorities. It is emphasized that the formal character of decision-making regarding the most important socio-political and economic changes in the region by the representative organs of the Ukrainian SSR and local authorities pushed the Western Ukrainians away from the process of Soviet democracy and Soviet power in general. Keywords: Western regions of Ukrainian SSR, Sovietization, the activity of the soviets (councils), decorative democracy.
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