Non-competitive elections in 20th century dictatorships: some questions and general considerations / Ralph Jessen and Hedwig Richter -- The self-staging of a plebiscitary dictatorship: the NS-Regime between uniformed Reichstag, referendum and Reichsparteitag / Markus Urban -- Popular sovereignty and constitutional rights in the USSR's Supreme Soviet elections of February 1946 / Mark B. Smith -- Integration, celebration, and challenge: Soviet youth and elections, 1953-1968 / Gleb Tsipursky -- Mass obedience: practices and functions of elections in the German Democratic Republic / Hedwig Richter -- Elections in modern dictatorships: some analytical considerations / Werner J. Patzelt -- The great Soviet paradox: elections and terror in the unions, 1937-1938 / Wendy Z. Goldman -- Plebiscites in Fascist Italy: national unity and the importance of the appearance of unity / Paul Corner -- Works council elections in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968 / Peter Heumos -- Faking it: neo-Soviet electoral politics in Central Asia / Donnacha Ó Beacháin -- Elections, plebiscitary elections, and plebiscites in Fascist Italy and Nazi-Germany: comparative perspectives / Enzo Fimiani -- Germany totally National Socialist: National Socialist Reichstag elections and plebiscites, 1933-1938: the example of Schleswig-Holstein / Frank Omland -- Elections in the Soviet Union, 1937-1989: a view into a paternalistic world from below / Stephan Merl -- The people's voice: the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1958 in the Belarusian capital Minsk / Thomas M. Bohn.