title: Collective Portrait of Delegates to the Congress of Soviets in 1917–1936
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metadata.value: Mironov, B. N.
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metadata.value: 2023-01-13T14:29:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Mironov B. N. ‘Collective Portrait of Delegates to the Congress of Soviets in 1917–1936’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 4, 2022, pp. 936–969. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.408 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.408
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38844
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metadata.value: Analysis of the party, socio-professional, ethnic, educational, gender and age composition of the
  delegates to the All-Russian and All-Union Congresses of Soviets in 1917–1936 discovered that the revolution
  brought to power new people. If the majority of the members of the State Duma and the Constituent Assembly
  belonged to the political cream of the elite and counter-elite, then the majority of the delegates to the Soviets
  were bone from the bone of the lower orders and reflected the cultural level of the majority of voters and shared
  socialist ideas and were zealous conductors of them in life. Overrepresented in the Soviets were members and
  candidates of the CPSU, men, youth and persons of early adulthood, employees, military personnel and intellectuals,
  Russians, educated; and underrepresented are members of other parties and non-party people, peasants,
  pro-bourgeois elements and persons from the former privileged strata, women, non-Russians, persons of mature
  and old age, illiterate. By age and education, delegates were not suitable for serious parliamentary activity, since
  they lacked education, worldly wisdom and political maturity. The new electoral law of 1918 was of fundamental
  importance for the creation of a loyal pro-Bolshevik deputy corps. The law established a system of indirect, multistage,
  class, qualification elections, very similar to the pre-revolutionary electoral law of 1907. Qualifications were
  introduced that increased the number of pro-Bolshevik voters; the election procedure was changed, allowing the
  authorities to take control of the nomination of candidates and the voting process. The policy of restriction found
  a response and approval among the broad masses, gave them a feeling of deep satisfaction, since they began
  to feel themselves like privileged classes. Many, primarily millions of deputies of the Soviets of various levels,
  sincerely believed that they were taking part in governing the state.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project no. 20-09-00353
  “The Disintegration of the Soviet Union in the Human Dimension: An Interdisciplinary Study”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Congress of Soviets
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: delegates
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: electoral laws
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: qualifications
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lishenets
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: electoral technologies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: electoral behavior
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Collective Portrait of Delegates to the Congress of Soviets in 1917–1936
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metadata.value: Article
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