1925 Soviet Union local elections

Local elections were held in the Soviet Union in 1925.[1] They were held as a result of low turnout in the 1924 elections causing the results in 40% of rural districts to be invalid, as a 50% turnout was required.[2]

The Communist Party suffered a setback during the elections as Communists were voted out of soviets in different regions. This contributed to rising calls for peasant unions modelled after the earlier All-Russian Peasant Union.[3]

According to Soviet law, multiple groups out of the eligible adult voting population were disenfranchised from all elections for various reasons.[4]

References

  1. ^ Maksimov, Konstantin Nikolaevich (2008). Kalmykia in Russia's Past and Present National Policies and Administrative System. Budapest: Central European University Press. p. 231. ISBN 9781435648258. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  2. ^ Velikanova, Olga (2013). Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 138. ISBN 9781137030740. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  3. ^ Smith, Stephen A. (2018). Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 299. ISBN 9780198734833.
  4. ^ Федорова, Наталия Анатольевна (2007). "Лишенцы 1920-х годов: советское сословие отверженных". Журнал исследований социальной политики. 5 (4). ISSN 1727-0634. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  • The Distinctiveness of Soviet Law. Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Dordrecht (1987): 110.
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