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"the Greatest Failure in All History"
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III THE SOVIETS UNDER THE BOLSHEVIK1 AFTER the coup d'etat, the Soviets continued to be elected in the same haphazard manner as before. Even after the adoption, in July, 1918, of I the Constitution, which made the Soviets the basis of the superstructure of governmental power, there was no noticeable improvement in this respect. Never, at any time, since the Bolsheviki came into power, have the Soviets attained anything like a I truly representative character. The Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic] stamps it as the most undemocratic and oligarchic of the great modern nations. The city Soviets are composed of delegates elected by the employees of factories and workshops and by trades and professional unions, including associations of mothers and housewives. The Constitution does not prescribe the methods of election, these being determined by the local Soviets themselves. In the industrial centers most of the elections take place at open meetings in the factories, the voting being done by show of hands. In view of the elaborate system of espionage and the brutal repression of all hostile criticism, it is easy to understand that such a system of voting makes possible and easy every form of corruption and intimidation. The whole system of government resulting from these methods proved unrepresentative. A single illustration will make this quite plain: Within four days of the Czar's abdication, the workers of Perm, in the Government of the Urals, organized a Soviet---the Urals Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet. At the head of it, as president, was Jandarmov, a machinist, who had been active in the Revolution of 1905, a Soviet worker and trades- unionist, many times imprisoned under the old regime. This Soviet supplemented and co-operated with the P...
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Pages 288
Dimensions: Length: 9.02" Width: 5.98" Height: 0.63"
Weight: 0.94 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 4, 2009
ISBN 1458953327
EAN 9781458953322
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