Constitution of the Soviet Union

The constitutions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were three adopted by various governments of the Soviet Union constitutions.

The Soviet Constitution of 1924 came on 31 January 1924 in force and consisted of two parts: the Declaration on the Establishment of the USSR and the founding treaty of the USSR.

On 5 December 1936, the so-called Stalin Constitution (named after Joseph Stalin ) adopted by the Congress of Soviets.

1977 replaced the so-called Brezhnev Constitution those from the year 1936. This constitution remained until the referendum on a new Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993, ie until after the end of the Soviet Union, in force and was about 300 times changed.

All three constitutions granted to the republics the right to leave the Union ( Constitution of 1924 in Article 4, Constitution of 1936 in Article 17, Constitution of 1977, Article 72). This system has presumably contributed to the separation of the Baltic States could be completed early and largely bloodless. Curiously, in practice, as centralist Soviet Union was one of the few states, which gave this right to their home countries.