Email this article Constitutional and legal status of the Crimean (SSR) ASSR as a part of the RSFSR (1921–1946)
- Authors: KHAYALI R.I.1
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Affiliations:
- University of Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation
- Issue: Vol 6, No 3 (2022)
- Pages: 311-321
- Section: General Theory and History of Law and the State
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2587-9340/article/view/303779
- ID: 303779
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We analyze the constitutional and legal processes in the Crimean (SSR) ASSR during the period of Soviet state building. The adoption of the first constitution of the republic in 1921 was initiated by the central authorities of the RSFSR and found the support of local authorities, as this was in the interests of the region. The constitution secured the state status within the RSFSR. With the adoption of the first Constitution of the USSR in 1924 in the Crimean SSR, additions are made to the Constitution of 1921, on the basis of which local authorities seek to build relations with the RSFSR and the USSR on a contractual basis. The Constitution of the RSFSR of 1925 assigned the official name of the Crimean ASSR to the autonomy. In turn, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR, endowed with the right to cancel the acts of the congresses of the Soviets of the autonomous republics, did not approve the 1924 Constitution of the Crimean SSR with amendments. The new version of the Constitution of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of 1929, which reflected changes in the state-legal construction in the autonomy, was also not approved by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR. The adopted Constitution of the Crimean ASSR in 1937 became an important stage in the constitutional and legal development of the autonomy. It reflected the changes in the socio-economic, socio-political life of the republic and was approved by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR. We conclude that the elimination of autonomy in the post-war years contradicted the ideology and practice of Soviet state building and created the prerequisites for subsequent voluntaristic decisions.
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Rustem I. KHAYALI
University of Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation
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Email: rustocean_79@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8305-3906
Doctor of History, Associate Professor, Head of General Humanitarian and Socio-Economic Disciplines Department of Crimean Law Institute (Branch)
Russian Federation, 9 Gogol St., Simferopol 295011, Republic of Crimea, Russian FederationReferences
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