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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 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 aSoviet-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 Books, History~~Europe~~Russia & the Former Soviet Union, The-Greatest-Failure-in-All-History~~John-Spargo, 999999999, The Greatest Failure In All History, John Spargo, 1437150713, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

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[EAN: 9781437150711], Neubuch, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], Law|Essays, BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., The Greatest Failure in All History: A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia (1920), John Spargo, CONTENTS Note Preface Why Have the Bolsheviki Retained Power? The Soviets The Soviets Under the Bolsheviki The Undemocratic Soviet State The Peasants and the Land The Bolsheviki and the Peasants The Red Terror Industry under Soviet Control The Nationalization of Industry Freedom of Press and Assembly "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat" State Communism and Labor Conscription Let the Verdict Be Rendered Documents Index John Spargo (1876-1966) was a leading socialist writer of the period. Spargo, trained as a stonecutter, but became a lay Methodist minister, became identified with the socialists in England in early life, became a leader in the English labor movement; and served on the Executive Council of the Social Democratic Federation. He immigrated to America in 1901 and was thereafter a longtime member of the National Executive Committee of the American Socialist Party. He regarded Bolshevism as an "inverted form of Czarism." He edited the socialist periodical, The Comrade, became involved in child labor issues; helped promote laws on child and woman labor, and moved to Vermont in 1909. He remained active in socialist circles, but moved to the right over World War I, and with Samuel Gompers and George Creel, founded the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, in favor of American involvement in the war. He gradually became outspoken advocate of free-market capitalism. His major publications include The Bitter Cry of Children (1906) and Karl Marx: His Life and Work (1909).<

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