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Foreign Policy and the 1977 Soviet Constitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1978

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References

1 Report to the Plenary Meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committe, May 24, 1977. Eng. trans, in 29 Current Digest of the Soviet Press, No. 23, July 6, 1977, at 6-10. Also in 25 Reprints from the Soviet Press, No. 1, July 15, 1977, at 16.

2 1961 Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Part One, Chapter VIII. Eng. trans, in Soviet Communism: Programs and Rules 63-67 (J. Triska ed. 1962).

3 Osakwe, , The Common Law of Constitutions of the Communist Party States, 3 Rev. Of Socialist L. 155 at 208 (1977)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 J. V. Stalin, Report on the-Draft Constitution of the USSR, November 25, 1936, Part V. Eng. trans, in J. Stalin, Leninism 379 at 396 (1942).

5 Federal Constitutional Law, October 26, 1955, Art. 1. This and subsequently cited constitutions and constitutional laws may be found conveniently in Constitutions of the Countries of the World: A Series of Updated Texts, Constitutional Chronologies and Annotated Bibliographies (A. Blaustein and G. Flauzi eds. 1971-).

6 Federal Republic, Art. 26 (1) ; Democratic Republic, Art. 8 ( 2 ).

7 Art. 9.

8 Art. 51.

9 Preamble.

10 Part I, Sec. 1, Art. 2 (2).

11 Art. 2.

12 Art. 27.

13 Art. 6

14 Art. 3.

15 Part I, Art. 1

16 Arts. 86, 87, 88.

17 Art. 6.

18 Title I, Chapter 1, Art. 2.

19 Art. 9

20 Preamble.

21 Preamble.

22 preamble and Art. 8.

23 Preamble.

24 Title X, Art. 1.

25 Chapter I, Art. 3.

26 These constitutions are collected in J. Thiska, Constitutions of the Communist Party States (1968).

27 Eng. trans, in Peking Rev., Jan. 24, 1975, at 12-17.

28 Supra note 2.

29 Art. 28. An English translation indicating changes in the final text from the original draft submitted for public discussion is published in 29 Current Digest of the Soviet Press, No. 41, Nov. 9, 1977, at 4. A translation with Brezhnev's report on the results of the nationwide discussion of the draft, October 4, 1977, is published in 25 Reprints from the Soviet Press, No. 8-9, Oct. 31-Nov. 15, 1977.

30 Reactionary Essence of New Soviet Constitution, Peking Rev., No. 25, June 17, 1977, at 15.