Category: History - European

"The Greatest Failure in All History" A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia

64. The right to vote and to be elected to the Soviets is enjoyed by the following citizens of both sexes, irrespective of religion, nationality, domicile, etc., of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, who shall have completed their eighteenth year by the day of elec...

Chapters

12. Chapter XII

62. The Congresses of Soviets and their Executive Committees have the right to control the activity of the local Soviets (_i.e._, the regional Congress controls all Soviets of t...

5. Chapter XIII, but it is certain that, if the language used is to be

subject to no esoteric interpretation, the following social groups are excluded from the right to vote: (_a_) all persons who employ hired labor for profit, including farmers wi...

8. Chapter VIII

38. For the accomplishment of this task the Council of People’s Commissars issues decrees, resolutions, orders, and, in general, takes all steps necessary for the proper and rap...

9. Chapter IX

52. The decision of questions indicated in Paragraphs (_c_) and (_h_) of Section 49 may be made by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee only in case it is impossible to c...

10. Chapter X

(_a_) Regional: of representatives of the urban and county Soviets, one representative for 25,000 inhabitants of the county, and one representative for 5,000 voters of the citie...

11. Chapter XI

(_b_) All other settlements (towns, villages, hamlets, etc.) of less than 10,000 inhabitants, one deputy for each 100 inhabitants; the total to be not less than three and not mo...

6. Chapter VI

25. The All-Russian Congress of Soviets is composed of representatives of urban Soviets (one delegate for 25,000 voters), and of representatives of the provincial (_Gubernia_) c...

7. Chapter VII

32. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee directs in a general way the activity of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government and of all organs of the Soviet authority in the c...

4. Chapter XV

It is quite clear that the suffrage here provided for is not universal; that certain classes of people commonly found in modern civilized nations in considerable numbers are not...

1. Chapter XIII

64. The right to vote and to be elected to the Soviets is enjoyed by the following citizens of both sexes, irrespective of religion, nationality, domicile, etc., of the Russian...

2. Chapter V) have the right to vote.

3. Chapter XIV

70. Detailed instructions regarding the election proceedings and the participation in them of professional and other workers’ organizations are to be issued by the local Soviets...