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 | | The later, <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> Constitution was Stalinist, and centralised power much further in Moscow; all subsequent Constitutions were also Stalinist, except that Gorbachev was in the process of negotiating a new non-Stalinist Constitution, more Federal i.e. | | | CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION OF SOCIALIST <<b>bb>>SOVIETb>bb>> REPUBLICS PART I DECLARATION Since the foundation of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Republics, the states of the world have been divided into two camps: the camp of capitalism and the camp of socialism. | | | For investigators of World Government, the Declaration part of the 1924 USSR Constitution is especially interesting, because it contains this committment to gradually expand the Federation by incrementally admitting more and more republics, after they had been liberated, until the whole world had joined the Union of <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Socialist Republics: |
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| | The Constitution of the U.S.S.R. may be amended only by decision of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. adopted by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the votes cast in each of its Chambers. | | | <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> Constitution of the U.S.S.R. Adopted December <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> |
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| | Later, the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> constitution provided for the direct election of a two-chamber Supreme <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>>—the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> of the Union, in which membership was based on population, and the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> of Nationalities, in which members were elected on a regional basis. | | | At the fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, in 1918, a constitution was drawn up that established the <<b>bb>>sovietb>bb>> as the formal unit of local and regional government and affirmed the All-Russian Congress of Soviets as the highest body of the state. | | | Much of their authority and legitimacy in the public eye came from the soviets' role as accurate reflectors of popular will: delegates had no set terms of office, and frequent by-elections gave ample opportunity for quick exertion of influence by the voters. |
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| | Prior to 1989, the former Supreme <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> was constitutionally the highest organ of legislative and executive authority but met only a few days annually; its Presidium managed affairs throughout the year. | | | The Congress of People's Deputies created in 1988 by amendment to Constitution was the highest organ of legislative and executive authority, consisting of 2,250 deputies, about 87 percent of whom were CPSU members or candidate members and some of whom were elected in the first multicandidate (although not multiparty) elections since the early <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> period. | | | There was a legislative body; the Congress of Soviets, from 1917 to <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> and the Supreme <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>>, from <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> on, but generally it functioned only to approve, unanimously, items placed on the agenda by the Politburo, the centralized leadership of the Communist Party of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union. |
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| | Under the constitution adopted in <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> and modified along the way until October 1977, the political foundation of the | | | In addition, liberalization led to fractures within the party hierarchy which reduced <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> control over the republics. | | | An attempt to declare the Polish <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Socialist Republic was made during the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> assault in the Polish-<<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> War of 1919-1922, by the Polish Provisional Revolutionary Committee headed by Julian Marchlewski in Bialystok. |
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| | Danzig Government promulgated a series of legislative decrees which in effect abolished most of the civic rights still enjoyed by the non‑Nazis and virtually nullified the guarantees of political liberty given by the constitution. | | | German communiqué repeated that the Franco‑<<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> pact was incompatible with the Locarno treaties and the Covenant of the League of Nations. | | | Czechoslovakian bill for the defense of the state became law. |
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| | The constitution of <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> abolished the division of the electorate into occupational classes and instituted elections of all soviets by direct universal suffrage, but all levels were dominated by the Communist party's parallel hierarchy. | | | Under the first <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitution only the local soviets were elected by direct suffrage. | | | Turkey's reliance on Britain: British political and diplomatic support for Turkey against <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Demands, 1943-47. |
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| | Under the constitution adopted in <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> and modified along the way until October 1977, the political foundation of the | | | In addition, liberalization led to fractures within the party hierarchy which reduced <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> control over the republics. | | | <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union was formed by the Soviets (Councils) of People's Deputies. |
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| | There were only formal ones - the state emblem or the clause of the Constitution of the USSR on the possibility of withdrawal from the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union. | | | The Kazakh and Kyrgyz autonomous <<b>bb>>sovietb>bb>> socialist republics became republics of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union in <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>>. | | | In 1932, the Karakalpak Region became the Karakalpak Autonomous <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Socialist Republic within the framework of the RSFSR (and within the framework of the Uzbek <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Socialist Republic in <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>>). |
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| | Even the “proletarian novelist” Maksim Gorky, who returned from foreign exile in 1929 and became the first chairman of the Union of Writers, was severely criticized before his death in <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>>. | | | The <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union had no official state language, but Russian was the preferred language of government and economics, the sole language of military command, and the medium of communication within the CPSU. | | | Article 36 of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitution of 1977 enshrined citizens’ right to use their mother tongues “and the languages of the other peoples of the USSR.” In fact, the Russian language was advantaged, though not to the exclusion of others. |
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| | The <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> Stalin Constitution names 11 republics as forming the USSR: the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the White Russian SSR, the Georgian SSR, the Armenian SSR, the Azerbaijan SSR, the Kazakh SSR, the Kirghiz SSR, the Uzbek SSR, the Turkmen SSR, and the Tajik SSR. | | | But nominally (in Constitutions) they were «coats of arms» ( gerby). | | | Only among the national coats of arms there are easily found examples of shield-less coat of arms, mainly influenced by <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> heraldry (though, there are other reasons, too, why some countries rejected the shield in their coats of arms). |
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| | The constitution of <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> abolished the division of the electorate into occupational classes and instituted elections of all soviets by direct universal suffrage, but all levels were dominated by the Communist party's parallel hierarchy. | | | Turkey's reliance on Britain: British political and diplomatic support for Turkey against <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Demands, 1943-47. | | | At the first all-Russian <<b>bb>>sovietb>bb>> congress (June, 1917), the Socialist Revolutionaries had 285 deputies, the Mensheviks 248, the Bolsheviks only 105. |
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| | The <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitution, adopted on December 5, <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>>, and also known as the "Stalin" constitution, redesigned the government of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union. | | | The <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> constitution changed the name of the Central Executive Committee to the Supreme <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> of the Union of <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Socialist Republics. | | | Russian text of the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> Constitution of the USSR |
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| | The <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union was governed by four separate constitutions in the course of its existence: 1918 <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Constitution 1924 <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Constitution <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Constitution 1977 <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Constitution The pol... | | | <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitutions appeared to guarantee certain political rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion. | | | Finally, <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitutions specified the form and content of state symbols, such as the arms, the flag, and the state anthem. |
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| | The <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitution, adopted on December 5, <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>>, and also known as the "Stalin" constitution, redesigned the government of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union. | | | The <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> constitution changed the name of the Central Executive Committee to the Supreme <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> of the Union of <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Socialist Republics. | | | Like its predecessor, the Supreme <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> contained two chambers: the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> of the Union and the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> of Nationalities. |
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| | The first example was the USSR, which was proclaimed a "socialist state" in its <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> Constitution The <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitution, adopted on December 5, <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>>, and also known as the "Stalin" constitution, redesigned the government of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union. | | | The constitution repealed restrictions on voting and added universal direct suffrage and the right to work to rights guaranteed by the previous constitution. | | | See socialist republic A socialist republic is a republic that according to its constitution or political doctrine operates under some form of a socialist economic system. |
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| | The Russian Republic had possessed a foreign ministry and the "right" to conduct foreign policy since the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>1936b>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> constitution was amended in 1944. | | | The Russian <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union began developing a separate foreign policy and diplomacy some time before the collapse of the <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> Union at the end of 1991. | | | As early as December 1990, <<b>bb>>Sovietb>bb>> foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze had cited harsh criticism of his conciliatory position toward the West as a major reason for his resignation. |
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