I find it so interesting that in the early days the Soviets were not so much a territorial union but rather economic associations of different workers. EH Carr writes of how the Soviets not very long after the revolution were taking on a “Syndicalist” character. Of course this was the first kind of association of its kind ever and in practice created alot of problems in terms of some Soviets not cooperating that well with other Soviets. While at the same time the central government was having heated debates and discussions between centralization or a decentralized federated system. One cannot imagine how difficult it was for the conditions of its time it was to have literally founded something that has never been done before and having to figure out how to do it while protecting it from foreign invasion, internal sabotage, or Soviets themselves just fucking off and doing their own thing while abandoning the rest.