The article is dedicated to the details of conducting a campaign for re-election to the Soviets in 1928-1929. The emphasis is placed on the Povolzhje national regions, particularly on rural areas in Mordovia and Tatarstan. The author provides examples of numerous violations of electoral legislature in the Soviet State, determines the reasons. Quantity data about persons deprived of electoral rights throughout the country as well as separately in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Mordovia and Tatarstan are provided.

Key words: electoral legislature, campaign for re-election to the Soviets, election campaign, deprival of electoral rights, nonvoters, kulaks, discriminatory politics of the Soviet government, violations as to the deprival of electoral rights.