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The Soviet Citizenship Law of 1938

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

T. A. Taracouzio*
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The American Society of International Law 1939

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References

1 Russian official text in Izvestiia, Aug. 24, 1938, No. 198; English translation in annex below, p. 169; for debates, cf. Izvestiia, Aug. 18 and 20, 1938, Nos. 193 and 194, respectively.

2 For text, cf. Taracouzio, The Soviet Union and International Law, Appendix V, pp. 379-382.

3 The Statute of 1931 had eighteen articles. Now there are only eight.

4 Taracouzio, op. cit., pp. 80-122.

5 Taracouzio, op. cit., pp. 120-121.

6 “Every person in the territory of the U.S.S.R. is recognized as a citizen of the U.S.S.R. in so far as there is no proof of his being a citizen of a foreign state.”

7 Taracouzio, op. cit., p. 379.