Popular sovereignty, or sovereignty of the peoples' rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who is the source of all political power.
1. Security
2. Patriotism and common celebrations (they worked on moral and pride of their people)
3. Since it was a communist regime, they were pursuing equality so there was that middle class that carried the society therefore there were neither extremely rich nor extremely poor people
4. During the period of Vladimir Lenin (Stalin period was too harsh as well as the rest), they had sound economy when the whole world was on its knees. Tactics that were applied by this man were genial and enough to make the USSR stable in the worst period of economical history.
5. Witnesses (elders of Russia) keep saying that the life back in the USSR was the best period of their lives so it somehow must be true
Answer:
Andrew Jackson developed the spoils system. This was a practice of giving government jobs to a person's political supporters. Andrew Jackson gave government jobs to his supporters, which were often common people. This helped break the hold the upper class had on government jobs.
