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<p>The <b>Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union</b> was the <a href="page.php?w=highest_body_of_state_authority">highest body of state authority</a> of the <a href="page.php?w=Soviet_Union">Soviet Union</a> from 1989 to 1991.</p>

<p><big>Background</big></p>
<p>The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union was created as part of <a href="page.php?w=Mikhail_Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>'s <a href="page.php?w=Perestroika">reform agenda</a>, and was enabled by Gorbachev's first constitutional change.</p>

<p>On 1 July 1988, the fourth</p><p>
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