Disenfranchisement in Kazakhstan in the 1920s-30s of the twentieth century (on the example of the city of Alma-Ata)

Abstract

The article analyzes the history of methods by which the government removed people from active participation in political and public life in Kazakhstan. One of them should be recognized as the deprivation of citizens' voting rights on the basis of class or social status. Meanwhile, disenfranchisement was an integral part of the Soviet electoral system. To understand the essential features of the Soviet electoral law, it is important to investigate the formation and evolution of legislation in this area; the problems of its interpretation and application by local authorities; to consider the factors that influenced the transformation of the circle of election participants. The purpose of the study is the evolution and implementation of the policy of the Soviet government in relation to disenfranchisement and the peculiarities of its implementation in the city of Alma-Ata and its environs. As well as recreating the social appearance and behavior of the categories of "deprived". The deprivation of the electoral rights to participate in elections automatically entailed a number of restrictions in the social and social situation. The deprived turned into outcasts, that is, second-class citizens. Often, disenfranchisement became the basis for further repressive methods of action against a citizen of Soviet Russia, including Soviet Kazakhstan.