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

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      Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution

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

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

      Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution
      ByLomb Samantha
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 14 November 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315194004
      Pages 190
      eBook ISBN 9781315194004
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
      OA Funder Knowledge Unlatched GmbH
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      Samantha, L. (2017). Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315194004

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315194004, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |11 pages

      Introduction

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      chapter |28 pages

      Citizenship and a social contract

      The drafting of the 1936 Constitution

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      chapter |22 pages

      Daily life in Kirov in the 1930s

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      chapter |22 pages

      Local realities

      The implementation of the discussion of the draft Constitution

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      chapter |8 pages

      Validators of socialist victory

      The discussion in the local press

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      chapter |18 pages

      Popular voices

      Interpreting citizens’ rights and duties

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      chapter |13 pages

      Integration, exclusion, and accountability

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      chapter |16 pages

      The Constitution, the 1937 elections, and repression

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      chapter |3 pages

      Conclusion

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      chapter |4 pages

      Notes on sources

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      chapter |18 pages

      The draft Constitution of the USSR

      (As published in Pravda, June 12, 1936. This is the author’s translation.)

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