1924 Soviet Union legislative election
Legislative elections were held in the Soviet Union in 1924 to elect members of the Congress of Soviets. Some of the citizenry were not enthusiastic about elections in rural areas held the same year, for a number of varied reasons, possibly including reduced faith in the Soviets, which would increase in later years. However, voter turnout amongst women was very high.[1][2][3][4]
The elections were noteworthy for a number of reasons:
Trotskyists within the Soviet Union as its relations with Western countries, like the United Kingdom varied.[5][6][7]
References
- ^ Hugh D. Hudson Jr., Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State: Surveillance and Accommodation Under the New Economic Policy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, p. 51.
- ^ Dorothy Atkinson, The End of the Russian Land Commune, 1905-1930, Sanford, CA: Sanford University Press, 1983, pp. 141, 280, 296, 298-299.
- ^ The Voice of the People: Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932, ed. C. J. Storella and A.K. Sokolov, New York: Yale University Press, 2012, p. 135.
- ^ O. Velikanova, Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 22, 104, 120, 138, 140.
- ^ Allan Todd, History for the IB Diploma Paper 3: The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) (Second Edition), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 22, 24-25, 31-33,35, 37, 56, 155.
- ^ Xenia Joukoff Eudin and Harold Henry Fisher, Soviet Russia and the West, 1920-1927: A Documentary Survey, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957, pp. 195, 264-265, 268, 269, 305, 306, 341.
- ^ Theodore Draper, American Communism and Soviet Russia, London: Transaction Publishers, 2009, second printing, pp. 124, 127, 537.
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