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Author Lomb, Samantha, author.

Title Stalin's Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Contents Citizenship and a social contract : the drafting of the 1936 Constitution -- Daily life in Kirov in the 1930's -- Local realities : the implementation of the discussion of the draft constitution -- Validators of Socialist victory : the discussion in the local press -- Popular voices : interpreting citizens' rights and duties -- Integration, exclusion, and accountability -- The constitution, the 1937 elections, and repression
Summary "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 competing claims, but rather focuses on the six-month long popular discussion of the draft Constitution, which preceded its formal adoption in December 1936. Drawing on rich archival sources, this book uses the discussion of the draft 1936 Constitution to examine discourse between the central state leadership and citizens about the new Soviet social contract, which delineated the roles the state and citizens should play in developing socialism. For the central leadership, mobilizing its citizenry in a variety of state building campaigns was the main goal of the discussion of the draft Constitution. However, the goals of the central leadership at times stood in stark contrast with the people's expressed interpretation of that social contract. Citizens of the USSR focused on securing rights and privileges, often related to improving their daily lives, from the central government."--Provided by publisher
Analysis History
Soviet Constitition
Purges
Russian History
Soviet Democracy
Soviet History
Stalinist Terror
USSR
socialism
social contract
Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
SUBJECT Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast
Subject Soviet Union. Konstitut︠s︡ii︠a︡ (1936)
SUBJECT Konstitut︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Soviet Union : 1936) fast
Subject Constitutional history -- Soviet Union
Political participation -- Soviet Union -- History
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Constitutional history
Political participation
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- History
Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- History
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315194004
1315194007