Timeline for Was Stalin behind the idea of universal elections in the USSR?
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| Aug 28, 2023 at 16:15 | history | edited | Evargalo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2023 at 13:16 | vote | accept | Anixx | ||
| Aug 28, 2023 at 12:53 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2023 at 12:35 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2023 at 12:19 | answer | added | Roger V. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 20:47 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | Btw, when Gorbachev did introduce a limited format of multiple-choice elections, many local party leaders did loose quite embarassingly the races they tried to contest. My guess is that the neo-Stalinist fakers took this situation as inspiration for their tall tales. | |
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| Mar 5, 2013 at 7:10 | comment | added | default locale | What kind of answer do you expect here? Alternative elections were not implemented and government position on them was pretty much clear. Do you expect somebody to bring some kind of personal interview with Stalin regretting unfulfilled dream of universal elections? I believe in its current form question is not answerable. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 16:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/308615662648033280 | ||
| Mar 3, 2013 at 21:54 | history | edited | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2013 at 19:36 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | Btw, I've read the article you linked to. Right after the Uzbekistan vignette it mentions the bloc we've argued about recently. Maybe now you'll believe it existed.... | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 19:28 | answer | added | Felix Goldberg | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 18:51 | comment | added | Anixx | @Felix Goldberg I meant that though the new constitution provided for free elections, nobody was bold enough to ballot as an alternative candidate. The purge quickly became an instrument in removing rival politicians. For example, Uzbekistan's first secretary Ikramov requested to repress the head of the cabinet of Uzbekistan Khodzhaev, who he suspected could win an election against himself. Khodzhaev was popular in the Communist party of Uzbekistan, so in the next plenum they removed Ikramov and he was subsequently repressed as well, the both were executed the same day. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 18:44 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | And I take it that the one who was most afraid of being repressed was Stalin, right? LOL | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 18:04 | comment | added | Anixx | @Felix Goldberg, they did not. The author claims it was because the purge of 1937 made everybody fear of being repressed. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 18:03 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | But did alternative elections ever take place at all in the Soviet Union? | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 17:25 | comment | added | Anixx | @Felix Goldberg Was Stalin the one who pushed for the territorial (civil) principle and competitive/alternative elections instead of elections by the working collectives (labour principle), effectively removing the dictatorship of proletariat. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 17:22 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | So what exactly is your question? | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 17:21 | history | edited | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2013 at 17:16 | history | asked | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |