Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stalin also promised the peasants equal representation with the town proletariat. At present, the peasants elect one representative to the local Soviet for every 40,000 inhabitants, while the cities elect one for every 25,000. Moreover, the peasants are eligible only for local office and are debarred from holding any of the higher positions. All this is to be changed and peasants, according to the authoritative word of Stalin, will in the future be eligible to hold the highest executive positions...
Elections to the Moscow Soviet† resulted in the return of 2,554 Communists and 1,308 members of other parties. This showed a decrease in the Communists' strength from 87.7% to 66%. More than 900 women were elected...
...FOOTNOTE †A Soviet is a territorial and political division roughly equivalent to a county. Each Soviet has a Congress which meets once a year to elect an executive council for the conduct of local government and to choose representatives for the All-Russian Congress of Soviets which, when in session, is the sovereign authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R.-Russia...
They told him of troubles, of Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
Divorced. Alexander Kerensky, Premier of the Russian revolutionary Government of 1917, now editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper in Prague, by Mme. Kerensky; in Leningrad. She charged desertion...