Soviet Election Campaign Under The Revolutionary Sight

Abstract:The evolution and development of elections and the electoral system profoundly influences political life of mankind. Since every electoral system differs in consisting elements, it can be categorized into classifications based on different criteria. The study of Electoral System under revolutionary perspective is a result of the Revolutionary War backdrop and the turning point of era. Three electoral campaigns during Chinese Soviet Republic period provide us a useful case study of the revolutionary electoral system. Among those campaigns, the one in Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, served as an outstanding model of the Central Soviet Area. Its practice and strategy are condensed version of Soviet elections. Therefore, it illustrates our interpretation of the characteristics, achievements as well as predicaments of the Soviet elections under revolutionary perspective.Soviet election campaign closely related to the need of warfare mobilization. Together with Chatian Movement, expansion of the red army movement, economic construction movement, women’s liberation movement, election campaigns achieved a lot:spread democracy in the average, supported the Revolutionary War, etc. What worth noting is, however, that the electoral system during the Revolutionary War has doomed weakness which cannot be overcome, disharmonious factors which impossible to dispel. Thus, the system itself dissolves the efficiency of electoral democracy.To analyze the reason why Agrarian Revolutionary War finally failed, we have to mention the political predicament and dysfunction caused by the election failure. Those electoral system in revolutionary era is actually a reverse confer of democratic rights, its mobilization, means, instability and non-national character are what cannot be ignored. Meanwhile, the purpose of the revolutionary election mobilization lies in persuasion and unification. The individual demands can subsequently be erased to achieve the final organizational goals. Soviet election campaign mobilization activities, however, has failed to solve the contradiction between individual and organization. As a result, the revolutionary enthusiasm is turned into an accelerator of the coming failure rather than inexhaustible motive force of the Revolutionary War. This contradiction existed all the way through the democratic revolution until the Communist Party of China put forward the "mass line" solution in the Anti-Japanese War.