The Soviet Concept of Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6399221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N S Timasheff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 506-518 |
| Publication date | 1950-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500047173 |
| OpenAlex | W2169536250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The cold war—now aggravated by shooting war in Korea, —is being waged on many fronts. One of these fronts is ideological, reflecting the incompatibility of the social ideals of the opponents. The ideological war is being conducted in many ways; and among the weapons used by the foe there is perhaps none more irritating to the Americans than the assertion that the Soviets enjoy real democracy while American democracy is but a ridiculous fake.From the very first day of their rule over Russia the Soviet leaders have insisted that their democracy is the best, or the highest ever achieved in history. This insistence they have made both before and after the enactment of the Stalin Constitution (1936)—in other words, both when their democracy excluded from the exercise of political rights the members of the former “bourgeoisie” and its servants (for example, clergymen and Tsarist policemen), and after their shift to universal suffrage
Art · Assertion · Bourgeoisie · Constitution · Democracy · Elite · Ideology · Literature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Ridiculous · Sociology · Suffrage · Universal suffrage · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,01 |
| Citation span | 1952 - 1952 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |