Stalin’s 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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1595452025-07-29T17:02:50Z Stalin’s Constitution Lomb, Samantha Young Men 1936 Soviet Constitition Kirov Region Kirov Large Families Lomb Samantha District Executive Committee Purges Regional Executive Committee Russian History Collective Farm Soviet Democracy Rural Soviet Soviet History Central State Leadership Stalinist Terror Central Executive Committee USSR District Party Committee Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Participatory Society Military Coercive Power Collective Farm Leaders Draft Constitution Regional Party Committee State Building Narrative thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTW Cold wars and proxy conflicts thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies 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. 2025-05-16T06:16:39Z 2025-05-16T06:16:39Z 2025-05-15T10:09:30Z 2017 book ONIX_20250515T115059_9781351759847_81 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101831 9781351759847 9780367348854 9781315194004 9781138721845 9781351759823 9781351759830 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159545 eng Routledge Studies in Modern European History open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101831/1/9781351759847.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101831/1/9781351759847.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315194004 10.4324/9781315194004 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781351759847 9780367348854 9781315194004 9781138721845 9781351759823 9781351759830 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Routledge 190 Oxford [...] open access |
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