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The Soviet Citizenship Law of 1938
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2017
Abstract
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- Copyright © The American Society of International Law 1939
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.
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