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Author | : Samantha Lomb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351759833 |
Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937–1938 that followed rendered it a hollow document. This study does not address these competing claims, but rather focuses on the six-month long popular discussion of the draft Constitution, which preceded its formal adoption in December 1936. Drawing on rich archival sources, this book uses the discussion of the draft 1936 Constitution to examine discourse between the central state leadership and citizens about the new Soviet social contract, which delineated the roles the state and citizens should play in developing socialism. For the central leadership, mobilizing its citizenry in a variety of state building campaigns was the main goal of the discussion of the draft Constitution. However, the goals of the central leadership at times stood in stark contrast with the people’s expressed interpretation of that social contract. Citizens of the USSR focused on securing rights and privileges, often related to improving their daily lives, from the central government. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315194004, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author | : J. V. Stalin |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2023-11-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This is the official constitution of the Soviet Union as it stood in 1936. The document is arranged into various sections describing how the Union shall be organised. It lists what were the then 15 Soviet Socialist States that formed the Union which it describes as a voluntary union. It defines every aspect of life and explains how this shall be led.
Author | : Samantha Lomb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781315194004 |
Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937-1938 that followed rendered it a hollow document. This study does not address these competing claims, but rather focuses on the six-month long popular discussion of the draft Constitution, which preceded its formal adoption in December 1936. Drawing on rich archival sources, this book uses the discussion of the draft 1936 Constitution to examine discourse between the central state leadership and citizens about the new Soviet social contract, which delineated the roles the state and citizens should play in developing socialism. For the central leadership, mobilizing its citizenry in a variety of state building campaigns was the main goal of the discussion of the draft Constitution. However, the goals of the central leadership at times stood in stark contrast with the people's expressed interpretation of that social contract. Citizens of the USSR focused on securing rights and privileges, often related to improving their daily lives, from the central government. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315194004, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author | : Aryeh L. Unger |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2024-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1040006620 |
Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts. It contains the texts of all four Soviet constitutions, and a chapter of commentary precedes each text. An overall assessment of Soviet constitutional development is offered in the concluding chapter.
Author | : Richard Schifter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Constitutions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Olga Velikanova |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319784439 |
This book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an insight into the mass political culture of the mid-1930s in the USSR and thus contributes to wider research on Russian political culture. Popular comments about the constitution show how liberal, democratic and conciliatory discourse co-existed in society with illiberal, confrontational and intolerant views. The study also covers the government’s goals for the constitution’s revision and the national discussion, and its disappointment with the results. Outcomes of the discussion convinced Stalin that society was not sufficiently Sovietized. Stalin's re-evaluation of society's condition is a new element in the historical picture explaining why politics shifted from the relaxation of 1933-36 to the Great Terror, and why repressions expanded from former oppositionists to the officials and finally to the wider population.
Author | : Soviet Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Newbold Hazard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Sharlet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315486482 |
Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev years, Robert Sharlet traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the erstwhile USSR. Sharlet, a noted authority on Soviet law and constitutional development, demonstrates the gradual transformation of law from an instrument of Communist Party rule into the new "rules of the game" for nonauthoritarian political development. In effect, he argues, one of Gorbachev's most durable achievements may be his redefinition of Soviet politics into a legal idiom along with his relocation of policymaking from behind the closed doors of Party conclaves into the more open, emergent arena of constitutional government. In analyzing the politics of law from the Brezhnev era to the rise of Yeltsin, the author takes account of the "war of laws", the symbolic uses of the Soviet constitution, and even the fact that the leaders of the failed coup attempted to justify their seizure of power on constitutional grounds. Constitutionalism has sufficiently suffused Soviet public life, the book concludes, that most of the sovereign republics as successors to the former USSR, have begun designing their futures - to varying degrees - in constitutional forms.
Author | : Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
ISBN | : |
Outline of constitutional structure of Soviet government and an authoritative text used by Russian administrators, lawyers, and students.