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Elections in Soviet Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Lazare Teper
Lazare Teper
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The Johns Hopkins University
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The representativeness of the Soviet system of government can best be ascertained, not through abstract inquiry into constitutional provisions, but by means of an analysis of the electorate and of the elected. Only in this way can the contentions of Soviet apologists and theoreticians be given an adequate test of reality. Simultaneously, such data should disclose a number of sociological and psychological implications. A recent publication of the Central Electoral Commission of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. gives a comprehensive view of the electorate and of the elected in the elections of Soviets held in the year 1931.

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Foreign Governments and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 1932 , pp. 926 - 931
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1932

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References

1 Tsentral'naia izbiratel'naia komissiia presidiuma TSIK S8SR, Vybory v sovety i sostav organov vlasti v SSSR v 1931 g. (Central Electoral Commission of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. Elections to Soviets and Composition of the Organs of Government in U.S.S.R. in 1931). All the data in the present article were taken from this publication.

2 Entsiklopediia prava i gosudarstva (Encyclopedia of Law and State), II, 68Google Scholar.

3 Constitution of U.S.S.R. as amended by the Sixth All-Union Congress of Soviets, Art. 9.

4 Ibid., Art. 10.

5 “Sixth Congress of Soviets,” in Soviet Union Review, April, 1931, p. 84Google Scholar.

6 Harper, S. N., Civic Training in Soviet Russia, p. 122Google Scholar.

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