1925 Soviet Union local elections

none Local elections were held in the Soviet Union in 1925.Maksimov Konstantin Nikolaevich 2008 Kalmykia in Russia's Past and Present National Policies and Administrative System https://books.google.com/books?id=SyogLC4SdRsC&q=soviet+local+elections+1925&pg=PA231 Budapest Central European University Press 231 9781435648258 15 October 2025 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.Velikanova Olga 2013 Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers https://books.google.com/books?id=fkDikq-8D34C&pg=PA138 New York Palgrave Macmillan 138 9781137030740 15 October 2025 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.Smith Stephen A. Stephen Smith (historian) 2018 Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 New York Oxford University Press 299 9780198734833 According to Soviet law, multiple groups out of the eligible adult voting population were disenfranchised from all elections for various reasons.https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/lishentsy-1920-h-godov-sovetskoe-soslovie-otverzhennyh Федорова Наталия Анатольевна Лишенцы 1920-х годов: советское сословие отверженных 2007 Журнал исследований социальной политики 5 4 1727-0634 15 October 2025 References The Distinctiveness of Soviet Law. Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Dordrecht (1987): 110. Category:1925 elections in the Soviet Union