_#_National holiday: Great October Socialist Revolution, 7-8 November (1917)
_#_Executive branch: president
_#_Legislative branch: the Congress of People's Deputies (S'ezd Narodnykh Deputatov) is the supreme organ of USSR state power and selects the bicameral Supreme Soviet (Verkhovnyi Sovyet) which consists of two coequal houses—Soviet of the Union (Soviet Soiuza) and Soviet of Nationalities (Soviet Natsional'nostei)
_#_Judicial branch: Supreme Court of the USSR
_#_Leaders:
Chief of State—President Mikhail Sergeyevich GORBACHEV (since 14 March 1990; former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party since 11 March 1985—resigned August 1991);
Head of Government—Prime Minister (vacant); Chairman of the
Committee for the Operational Management of the USSR National
Economy Ivan SILAYEV (since 24 August 1991)
_#_Political parties and leaders: nascent multiparty system
_#_Suffrage: universal at age 18
_#_Elections: