Recallability in the USSR

[bricolage]

Right I know this is a very very broad question that would differ over time and between different parts of the Soviet state etc etc but I know absolutely nothing about this so have to start from the bottom. What I am interested in is the degree to which officials in the Soviet Union (probably most interested about this under Lenin) were recallable? I suppose this also depends on how they were elected or appointed or whatever but I know nothing about that either. Hopefully someone can help me out with this. Cheers.

[eyedrop]

I'm wondering if there where any officials/delegates genuinely being recalled from the assemblies they represented. Having recallability on the paper isn't all that important if some factors prevent it from being used.

[ArrowLance]

I suppose the largely popular purging counts as recall.

[eyedrop]

I suppose the largely popular purging counts as recall.Nah, I didn't think it was necessary to specify, but I was more thinking of a more bottoms-up initiated recalling.

E. g. a sovjet recalling a delegate because s/he disagreed with their instructions.


(Was that correct use of e. g. mikelepore?)

[ArrowLance]

Nah, I didn't think it was necessary to specify, but I was more thinking of a more bottoms-up initiated recalling.

E. g. a sovjet recalling a delegate because s/he disagreed with their instructions.


(Was that correct use of e. g. mikelepore?)

Well I was just saying, that's sort of how the purges worked.

[Kléber]

Well I was just saying, that's sort of how the purges worked.
Ya, because when people tried to recall Stalin (AKA the proletariat), he recalled the people and elected a new one. :rolleyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Congress_of_the_VKP(b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Congress_of_the_VKP%28b))

In Soviet Russia, official recalls YOU!