1937 Soviet legislative election

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election in the Soviet Union legislative election

The 1937 Soviet legislative election was the first nationwide vote to choose deputies to the newly created Supreme Soviet under the 1936 Stalin Constitution, held amid the Great Purge and tightly controlled by the Communist Party.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	election in the Soviet Union → legislative election →
allowedParties	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
appliesToJurisdiction	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics →
basedOn	1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union →
candidateNomination	controlled by Communist Party and affiliated organizations →
chamber	Soviet of Nationalities → Soviet of the Union →
chamberElected	Soviet of Nationalities → Soviet of the Union →
context	Stalinist political repression →
controlledBy	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
country	Soviet Union →
deJureHeadOfStateDuringElection	Mikhail Kalinin →
dominantParty	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
electoralCompetition	nominally multi-candidate in some districts but effectively single-party →
electoralSystem	single-member constituencies →
elects	deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →
followedBy	1946 Soviet legislative election →
follows	All-Union Congress of Soviets →
governmentFormAfterElection	Soviet socialist republic federation →
hasPart	1937 election to the Soviet of Nationalities → 1937 election to the Soviet of the Union →
headOfStateDuringElection	Joseph Stalin →
historicalSignificance	marked transition from Congress of Soviets to Supreme Soviet system →
ideologicalJustification	building socialism under Stalin →
languageOfBallots	Russian →
legalFramework	1936 Stalin Constitution →
legislativeBody	Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →
locatedInTimePeriod	Great Purge →
mainIdeologue	Joseph Stalin →
numberOfChambers	2 →
occursDuring	Stalin era →
partOf	history of elections in the Soviet Union → political history of the Soviet Union →
pointInTime	1937 →
politicalIdeology	Marxism–Leninism →
politicalSystem	one-party state →
precededBy	elections to the All-Union Congress of Soviets →
result	near-unanimous support for Communist Party candidates →
rulingPartyAfterElection	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
rulingPartyBeforeElection	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
securityInvolvement	NKVD oversight of political climate →
significantEvent	first election to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →
supervisedBy	Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
typeOfElectorate	indirectly influenced by state security organs →
votingMethod	secret ballot →
votingRight	universal suffrage for adults with political rights →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →	firstElection