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Yes, that's interesting! It failed pretty quickly in the USSR, though, so clearly additional checks and balances are needed: Lenin […] issued a "temporary" ban
by iainmerrick 10y ago
Yes, that's interesting! It failed pretty quickly in the USSR, though, so clearly additional checks and balances are needed:
Lenin […] issued a "temporary" ban on factions in the Russian Communist Party. This ban remained until the revolutions of 1989 and according to critics made the democratic procedures within the party an empty formality.
- int_19h 10y agoIn USSR, it was "workers' and peasants' councils" from the get go (so those not belonging to these two categories were excluded). And the real power was always in the hands of Sovnarkom. So I would say that USSR never really had council democracy other than in name - just like most "democratic people's republics" out there aren't democratic.