ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on both the implementation of the discussion and the popular response to the draft Constitution, which comes from regional and local Party and state documents. Many of these documents were designed to address certain questions and concerns raised by officials in Moscow. The questions that Moscow presented to regional officials shaped the information supplied in the reports and how the documents portrayed discussion of the draft Constitution. In the fall of 1936, the Central Committee expressed alarm about the completeness and accuracy of materials from the Kirov region. The obvious friction between the Central Executive Committee's representative, Inspector Maslov, and the Regional Executive Committee's representative, Aleksandr Alekseevich Bobkov, emphasized the conflicting goals and duties that splintered Soviet bureaucracy. N. Novikov demanded that Bobkov pay attention to the organization of the statistical report on suggestions and additions to the draft Constitution and report what action he had taken to correct the problem.
