Soviet democracy and repression in the late 1930s

Review of: Samantha Lomb, Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution. 177 pp. New York: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 978-1315194004 (e-book, open access) and Olga Velikanova, Mass Political Culture under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936. 260 pp. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978-3319784427. $109.00