Danilova E .N. The Constitution of the RSFSR in 1937: the history of preparation, discussion and enactment

Abstract: the history of creation and enactment of the Constitution of the RSFSR in 1937 is for the first time studied based on the archival materials. The article highlights some features of these processes in comparison over the preparation of the Stalin Constitution of 1936. The article emphasizes that the development and adoption of the new republican constitutions was a part of the Soviet Union of the constitutional reform carried out in the second half of the 1930-ies. A conclusion about a special role of party structures — the Politburo and Central Committee of the CPSU(b) controlling the entire process of creating and adopting new republican constitution is made. The study of the materials of the brief national discussion of the draft of the Constitution of the RSFSR in 1937 reveals the range of the most significant problems that worried the people of the Russian republic. Among them — the national ratio, the position of autonomous regions, the equalization of economic and social rights of urban and rural population, education, repression.

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