Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution

Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937–1938 that followed rendered it a hollow document. This study does not address these c...

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Main Author:	Lomb, Samantha
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Routledge 2017 Knowledge Unlatched GmbH Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis
Edition:	1
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Subjects:	1936 Soviet Constitition Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies Central Executive Committee Central State Leadership Cold wars and proxy conflicts Collective Farm Collective Farm Leaders Constitutional history Constitutional history > Soviet Union District Executive Committee District Party Committee Draft Constitution European History History History and Archaeology History: specific events and topics Interdisciplinary studies Kirov Kirov Region Large Families Lomb Samantha Military Coercive Power Modern History 1750-1945 Participatory Society Political participation Political participation > Soviet Union > History Purges Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects Regional / International studies Regional Executive Committee Regional Party Committee Rural Soviet Russia & The Former Soviet Union Russian History Soviet Democracy Soviet History Soviet Union Soviet Union > Politics and government > History Soviet Union > Social conditions > History Soviet Union. Konstitut︠s︡ii︠a Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 Stalinist Terror State Building Narrative The Cold War USSR Young Men Kirov Region Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Collective Farm Central State Leadership Union Republic District Party Committee Regional Executive Committee Regional Party Committee Young Men Collective Farm Leaders Nep Period Participatory Society Draft Constitution Military Coercive Power District Executive Committee People’s Commissars Mikhail Kalinin Large Families Rural Soviet Supreme Soviet Central Executive Committee Soviet Socialist Republic Nep Era Class Enemies State Building Narrative
ISBN:	1138721840, 0367348853, 9781138721845, 9780367348854, 9781315194004, 9781351759847, 9781351759823, 1351759841, 1351759833, 9781351759830, 1315194007, 1351759825
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