title: Collective Portrait of Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Union Republics in 1938–1989
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metadata.value: Mironov, B. N.
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metadata.value: 2023-08-17T18:40:21Z
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metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Mironov B. N. ‘Collective Portrait of Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Union Republics in 1938–1989’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023, pp. 141–171. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.109 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43777
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In 1938–1989, Supreme Soviets of the USSR and Union Republics were the successors of the Congresses
  of Soviets and performed the same functions assigned to them by the ruling party — to approve and
  convert the decisions of the Сommunist Party into laws, to support the policy pursued by the party and the government,
  to legitimize the existing regime. The Soviets performed these functions quite successfully due to the
  fact that the deputy corps included people from all social groups loyal to the regime and at the same time influential,
  authoritative, and well-known throughout the country. A simple Soviet citizen believed in the deputies and
  the real power of the Supreme Soviets, thanks to which the Soviets, having no real power, had great symbolic
  power, which allowed them until 1989 to maintain the trust of the people in the Soviet system and the communist
  project. In 1938–1989, the composition of the deputies of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR and the union republics
  underwent important changes: there was an in increase in the proportion of workers and peasants, women,
  educated people, and people of mature and senior age; the proportion of employees, Russians and semi-literate
  people decreased. The deputies’ corps became more balanced in all respects and significantly more educated,
  but members and candidates of the Communist Party, men, employees, intellectuals, functionaries, were still
  overrepresented, and non-party workers, peasants and Russians were underrepresented. In general, the deputy
  corps was comprised of the elite; the Supreme Soviets of the Union and Autonomous Republics — of the national
  elite of the titular peoples. They were not professional politicians, as in Western parliaments, but the elite. For
  the majority of deputies, activity in the Soviets was not the main profession, but an honorable part-time job on a
  voluntary basis.
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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 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Supreme Soviet
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: democratic authoritarianism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Zemsky sobor
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: electoral statistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: CPSU
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: elections
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Collective Portrait of Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Union Republics in 1938–1989
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metadata.value: Article
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