Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies)

Моссовет

Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies) was the USSR's version of a city council and it existed from 1918 until 1991. Today, the Mossovet building at 13 Tverskaia Street across from Tverskaia Square, serves as the office of Moscow's civil administration. Designed in 1782, the red-colored palazzo was the residence of Moscow's governor-general. In the 1940s, the Mossovet building was elevated three stories.

PP 588: Everyone to the New Elections of the Soviet!
More farm laborers and poor people to the Soviets!
Poor woman and woman farmer — be at the forefront!
Long live the Soviets!
Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat!
Building soviet farms and collective farms is the socialistic way of overcoming
scattered and outdated small peasant holdings, forward to large collective agriculture!

PP 596: "Long live woman of the USSR, the builder of socialism."

Sources & Citations

Engelstein, L. (2018). Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921. New York: Oxford University Press.
Argenbright, R. (2016). Moscow under construction: City building, place-based protest, and civil society. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Hatherley, O. (2016). Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings. London: Penguin Books.
Nilsson, N. A. (1979). Art, society, revolution: Russia 1917-1921. Stockholm: Almqvist och Wiksell.