For Zemskii Sobor we have a term and definition in Soviet Union.

Zemskii Sobor (Soviet Union)

A national assembly consisting of members of the duma (q.v.) of the boyars (q.v.), high church dignitaries, elected representatives of the nobility, townspeople, and sometimes the peasants. Originally a consultative body in the mid-sixteenth century, this organization shared some minor governing functions with the tsars by the mid- seventeenth century but was not convened in the eighteenth century or subsequently.

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