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Revolutionary Council (other)
Revolutionary Council may refer to the: * Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan), organ of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1965 until the party's collapse in 1992 * Revolutionary Council (Algeria), the body that ruled Algeria following its 1965 coup d'état * Revolutionary Council (Portugal), a body created by the Armed Forces Movement in 1975, disbanded in 1982 * Revolutionary Council (Zanzibar), part of the semi-autonomous Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar It may, alternatively, refer to the: * Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, a group of Sierra Leone soldiers that allied itself with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s * Council of Islamic Revolution (Iran), a group of clerics and experts chosen to manage Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and then legislate for its interim government * National Patriotic Front of Liberia – Central Revolutionary Council, a rebel group that participated in the Liberian civil war * Revolutionary Military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan)
The Revolutionary Council () of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1978 until Afghan Civil War (1989-1992), its collapse in 1992. The council was the political power, supreme state power under the communist regime and was a carbon copy of the Supreme Soviet in the Soviet Union. The point with the council was to convene on a semiannual basis to approve decisions made by the presidium. Rise to power After the Saur Revolution the biggest problem facing the party was the inner conflict between the two biggest groups in the party, the Khalqs and the Parchams. After taking power, Nur Mohammad Taraki refused to reveal information about the PDPA's organization and how it was built up. Taraki never revealed the identities of the members of the Revolutionary Council during his reign. When the PDPA seized power with help from the Afghan National Army, Afghan army, it was the army soldiers to announce their victory over Mohammed Daoud Khan and the first decree ever released by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Council (Algeria)
The Revolutionary Council (Arabic: مجلس الثورة) was the governmental body that ruled Algeria after the coup d'état in June 1965. Colonel Houari Boumédiène was its chairman from 19 June 1965 to 10 December 1976. It replaced the People's National Assembly and functioned as the "supreme authority of the Revolution". Boumediene then restored the People's National Assembly and dissolved the Revolutionary Council after drafting the 1976 Algerian constitution, approved by 99% of voters. He then served as president after winning the 1976 presidential election with a great majority until his death on 27 December 1978. The council was initially made up of 26 members, almost all of them were officers of the Algerian People's National Army linked to the Oujda Group. The members were eventually reduced to nine by 1976. Membership The members were as follows in 1970: *Moulay Abdelkader *Ahmed Belhouchet *Mohammed Ben Ahmed *Ahmed Bencherif *Bouhadjar Benhaddou * Chadli Bendje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Council (Portugal)
The Revolutionary Council (''Conselho da Revolução'') of Portugal, was created on 14 March 1975 by the Assembly of the Armed Forces Movement (''Assembleia do Movimento das Forças Armadas'') with the goal of achieving the objectives of that movement's program as fast as possible and to provide the Portuguese people the security, the confidence, and social peace necessary achieve those governmental reforms. It was disbanded on 30 September 1982 by the first revision to the 1976 Constitution and replaced with the Constitutional Court and advisory Council of State. Composition The Revolutionary Council was composed of the following positions: * President of the Portuguese Republic * Chief and Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff * Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force * 14 officers selected by the three branches of the Portuguese Armed Forces * Prime Minister of Portugal The prime minister of Portugal (; ) is the head of government of Portugal. As head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Council (Zanzibar)
The Revolutionary Council along with the Zanzibar House of Representatives make up the semi-autonomous Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. The council's principal role is to advise the President of Zanzibar, who is the Head of government. The council is made up of the following members. * The President of Zanzibar, who is the Chairman of the Council * The 1st and 2nd Vice-presidents * All Ministers of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar * Other members appointed by the President of Zanzibar References External links Cabinet of Zanzibar Government of Zanzibar {{Zanzibar-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) was a group of Sierra Leone soldiers that allied itself with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s. While the AFRC briefly controlled the country in 1998, it was driven from the capital by an international military intervention of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG). It was no longer a coherent and effective organization by the elections of 2002. Description The AFRC was formed by Major Johnny Paul Koroma of the Sierra Leonean military in 1997, who used it to carry out a coup d'etat against the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. The former Sierra Leone Army ("ex-SLA") is a term used to refer to soldiers loyal to the AFRC. Several rationales have been suggested for the coup, including: anger at the government for not implementing the November 1996 peace agreement with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), perceived ethnic discrimination in the appointment of the high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Islamic Revolution (Iran)
The Council of the Islamic Revolution () was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Iranian Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned to Iran. "Over the next few months there issued from the council hundreds of rulings and laws, dealing with everything from bank nationalization to nurses' salaries."Bakhash, Shaul, ''Reign of the Ayatollahs'', Basic Books, 1984, p.65 Its existence was kept a secret during the early, less secure time of the revolution, and its members and the exact nature of what the council did remained undisclosed to the public until early 1980. Some of the council's members like Motahhari, Taleqani, Bahonar, Beheshti, Qarani died during Iran–Iraq War or were assassinated by the MKO during the consolidation of the Iranian Revolution. Most of those who remained were put aside by the regime. Momen, Moojan, ''An Introduction to Shi'i Islam'', Yale University Press, 1985, p. 290 Overview The Council was composed of seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Patriotic Front Of Liberia – Central Revolutionary Council
The National Patriotic Front of Liberia-Central Revolutionary Council (NPFL-CRC) was a rebel group that participated in the First Liberian Civil War. The group emerged in mid-1994 and was a breakaway faction of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), which was led by Charles Taylor in full Charles Ghankay Taylor (born January 27, 1948, Liberia). Prominent figures in the NPFL-CRC were Sam Dokie and Tom Woewiyu, a defense chief in Taylor's alternative government based in the Bong County town of Gbarnga. Both men cited strategic and ideological differences as the cause of their defection. The NPFL-CRC did engage in small battles with the NPFL around Gbarnga and northern Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ..., but was not a major force in the conflict. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Military Council
The Revolutionary Military Council (), sometimes called the Revolutionary War Council Brian PearceIntroductionto Fyodor Raskolnikov s "Tales of Sub-lieutenant Ilyin." or ''Revvoyensoviet'' (), was the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union. It was instituted on September 2, 1918, by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), known as the "Decree Declaring the Soviet Republic Military Camp". Prior to ''Revvoyensoviet'', the two main military authorities had been the Supreme Military Council (, ') and the operations division of the People's Commissariat on War and Navy Affairs. The decree put all fronts and military organizations under the command of the chairman of ''Revvoyensoviet'', with a commander-in-chief second-in-line to the chairman to lead strategic and military operations stateside. The chairman was appointed by VTsIK on to serve as People's Commissar (or ''narkom'') of War and Navy Affairs. The first chairm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Revolutionary Council (Madagascar)
{{Politics of Madagascar The Supreme Revolutionary Council was the body that ruled Madagascar from 1975 to 1991. Didier Ratsiraka Didier Ignace Ratsiraka (; 4 November 1936 – 28 March 2021) was a Malagasy politician and naval officer who was the third president of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and the fifth from 1997 to 2002. At the time of his death, he was the longest ... became the President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council on 15 June 1975, and was later sworn in as President of Madagascar on 4 January 1976 Members (March 1985) * Didier Ratsiraka * Col. Désiré Rakotoarijaona * Richard Andriamanjato * Dr. Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny * Solo Norbert Andriamorasata * Justin Rakotoniaina * Manandafy Rakotonirina * Col. Jean Ferlin Fiakara * Lt-Col. Ferdinand Jaotombo * Lt-Col. Max Valérien Marson * Etienne Mora * Jean-Baptiste Ramanantsalama * Lt-Col. Jean de Dieu Randriantanany * Arsène Ratsifehera * M. Rakotovao-Razakaboana * Celestin Radio * Simo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Revolutionary Council (Somalia)
The Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC; , , ) was the governmental body that ruled Somalia from 1969 to 1976. In 1980, a state of emergency was declared and the SRC was reinstated. History Assassination of President and coup d'état On 15 October 1969, while paying a visit to the northern town of Las Anod, Somalia's then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards.Moshe Y. Sachs, ''Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations'', Volume 2, (Worldmark Press: 1988), p.290. His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d'état on the afternoon of 21 October 1969 (the day after his funeral), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering armed opposition. The putsch was spearheaded by Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, who at the time commanded the army. Establishment of revolutionary council Alongside Barre, the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) that assumed power after President Sharmarke's assassination was led by Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Revolutionary Council
The Union Revolutionary Council (), officially the Revolutionary Council of the Union of Burma () or simply the Revolutionary Council (RC; ), was the supreme governing body of Burma (now Myanmar) from 2 March 1962, following the overthrow of U Nu's civilian government, to 3 March 1974, with the promulgation of the 1974 Constitution of Burma and transfer of power to the Pyithu Hluttaw (People's Assembly), the country's new unicameral legislature. The Revolutionary Council's philosophical framework was laid in the Burmese Way to Socialism, which aspired to convert Burma into a self-sustaining democratic socialist state, on 30 April 1962. On 4 July 1962, the RC established the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), the country's only legal political party which Donald M. Seekins claims was modelled along the lines of a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary party. From 1962 to 1971, BSPP transitioned from a cadre party (consisting of elite RC affiliated members) into a mass party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Committee (other)
Revolutionary committee may refer to: * Revolutionary committee (China), committees that took over the functions of government during the Cultural Revolution * Revolutionary Committee (Persia), played a role in the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911 * Revolutionary committee (Soviet), Bolshevik provisional governments in envisioned Soviet republics ** Galician Revolutionary Committee ** Siberian Revolutionary Committee ** Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee ** Military Revolutionary Committee * Supreme Revolutionary Committee, the unrecognized acting government of Yemen * Revolutionary Committee of the Batavian Republic *Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK; also commonly known, especially when referenced historically, as the Left Kuomintang or Left Guomindang), commonly abbreviated in Chinese as Minge (), is one of the eight minor Democ ... * Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
