2012/01/01 by Hugh D. Hudson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Arbitration #Conciliation #Cornerstone #General election #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #History #Law #Peasant #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Sociology #Soviet and Russian History
paper · doi:10.1057/9781137010544_6
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A s 1926 drew to a close, the party began preparations for new elections to the soviets. Looking back at recent election campaigns (the elections of fall 1924, the re-elections of that year, and the elections of 1925–1926), the party leadership was determined to make significant adjustments, especially to the political advances that the political police were arguing the kulaks had achieved through the electoral process. 1 In the countryside the party was to be far more active, the class issue was to be stressed, and participation in elections (and most significantly in rural governance) by persons who by law should have been deprived of electoral rights was to be eliminated. The new instructions for the elections were circulated to the Union republics in October 1926 with elections initially set for January 1, 1927. The overwhelming theme of party pronouncements regarding the scheduled elections was the “liquidation” of kulak influence on the peasant masses. 2 For the party this signaled a turn away from conciliation of the well-to-do peasants that had been the cornerstone of party policy since the spring of 1923. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.