1938 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election

1938 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election

26 June 1938[1] 1947 →
All 304 seats in the Supreme Soviet[1]
First party Second party   Leader Nikita Khrushchev Yakov Khomenko Party Communist Party of Ukraine[1] Komsomol[1]
Elected Chairman of Parliament Mikhail Burmistenko[1] Communist Party

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Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Ukrainian SSR on 26 June 1938 to elect deputies to the Supreme Soviet.^[1] They were held alongside elections to oblast councils and followed the national elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on 12 December 1937.^[1]

Background

A new Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR ("Stalin's Constitution") had been adopted in 1937.^[1] Previously on 5 December 1936 at the 8th Extraordinary Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union, there was already adopted the Constitution of the whole Union which became a base for development and adaptation of constitutions of union republics.^[1] On resolution of Presidium of the All–Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (AUCEC) of 13 June 1936, there was established the AUCEC Constitutional Commission.^[1] By prior decision of Politburo of Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CC CP(b)U), the Presidium approved personnel composition of the Constitutional Commission.^[1] The developed draft of Constitution of the UkrSSR by the commission was submitted under existing practice to CC CP(b)U, Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (CC VCP(b)), after which the agreed draft was reviewed by the AUCEC Presidium.^[1] After the AUCEC Presidium approved the draft it decided to submit the draft for review to the 16th Extraordinary All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets.^[1]

Coincidentally in 1937 to Ukraine were dispatched three personal representatives of Stalin Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikolai Yezhov, and Nikita Khrushchev.^[2] After their arrival in Ukraine were arrested and executed 17 members of government.^[2] The chairman of Sovnarkom of the UkrSSR Panas Lyubchenko committed suicide.^[2] The CC CP(b)U that was recently elected in 1937 at the XIII Party's congress was routed, 10 out of 11 members of Politburo along with 4 out of 5 candidate members perished, while all 9 members Orgburo were repressed.^[2]

Results

Political affiliation

• Communist Party of Ukraine – 73%^[1]
• Komsomol of Ukraine – 10.9%^[1]
• Unaffiliated – 16.1%^[1]

Social background

• Workers – 50.3%^[1]
• Peasants – 25%^[1]
• Intelligentsiya – 24.7%^[1]

National background

• Ukrainians – 61.5%^[1]
• Russians – 34.5%^[1]
• Other nationalities – 4%^[1]

Gender background

• Women – 26.6%^[1]
• Men – 73.4%^[1]

List of deputies

incomplete list

References

External links

• List of deputies of Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR 1st convocation (1938 – 1947) (Список депутатов Верховного Совета Украинской ССР I созыва (1938 - 1947)). Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991.
• The 1937 Constitution of the UkrSSR. Verkhovna Rada website.
• Ukase of Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the UkrSSR of 21 January 1940 (Указ Президії Верховної Ради УРСР). Zbruc.