ABSTRACT
The Russian people, down even to the most oppressed of the peasants and the Jews, are attempting today according to their needs and their technique to exercise electoral functions. The electorate functions through majorities or pluralities. When the majority or plurality has registered itself we say the "people" has spoken, or has "decided", but that is a bit of personification, of phrase-making. The electorate never includes the whole citizenship. The groupings of the electorate activity proper, led by party organizations differentiated out of them, are few in number compared with the complex underlying groupings. The legal guarantees, important as they are from a technical standpoint, do not produce any vital difference in the human process. Where the government has become an atrocity, the semi-political organizations may arise in tremendous vigor with terrorism perhaps as their weapon.
