Interesting that i tried to find it using search string "planet with ghosts of two armies locked din never ending war" and found nothing, neither in Google nor in SE. Wonder if something can be added to make those search words too.

Thank you, but not. What do you think of the price of eggs? - in Asimov's story the man is not in position to make conscious choice about voting, the voting it automagically deduced from seemingly unrelated questions. Thus he also is not pressed by parties - would they even want to, they would still not know what to press for. In the story I remember - the plot consisted exactly of building up more and more pressure, forcing "simple man" into the dead-end, where voting for either of two politicians would result in severe if unlawful punishment, making it impossible even to just cave in.

@Jontia I don't, I think it should be "gold age" of American (or at least Western) sci-fi, something from end of WW2 to 1970-s, as it got translated and published in USSR, at least in the last years of it.

Thanks. Now i have my bookmark. To think if it, my synopsis was so wrong on so many details. Memory does play tricks...

if we would replace atomic energy with just catastrophic evens and specifically with pandemic meteorites then it could become a 1946 story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_Season by Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttner, published under the joint pseudonym "Lawrence O'Donnell"

yep, perhaps. I am not native speaker, so would not feel the border between those fine.

It was most probably American Sci-Fi of last half of XX century. I read translated to Russian in electronic form. It should be a novel, perhaps about 1-3 dozen pages.