1936 Soviet Constitution

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy gptkb:Extraordinary_8th_Congress_of_Soviets_of_the_USSR
5 December 1936
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Stalin_Constitution
gptkbp:author gptkb:Nikolai_Bukharin
gptkb:Joseph_Stalin
gptkb:Andrei_Zhdanov
gptkb:Vyacheslav_Molotov
gptkb:Andrey_Vyshinsky
gptkbp:chapter 13
gptkbp:context gptkb:pre-World_War_II_Soviet_Union
adopted during Joseph Stalin's leadership
period of the Great Purge
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:documentType written constitution
gptkbp:establishedBody gptkb:Central_Executive_Committee
gptkb:Council_of_People's_Commissars
gptkb:Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkb:Prosecutor_General_of_the_USSR
gptkb:People's_Courts
gptkbp:guaranteedRight freedom of speech
freedom of religion
freedom of assembly
universal suffrage
right to education
right to social security
right to work
right to rest and leisure
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1936 Soviet Constitution
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:1977_Soviet_Constitution
constitutions of other socialist states
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Soviet
Marxism-Leninism
gptkbp:language gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:legalStatus supreme law of the Soviet Union (1936-1977)
gptkbp:locationAdopted gptkb:Moscow
gptkbp:numberOfArticles 146
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:Constitution_of_the_Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:1924_Soviet_Constitution
gptkbp:promotion gptkb:Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:purpose to define the structure of the Soviet government and the rights of citizens
gptkbp:repealedBy gptkb:1977_Soviet_Constitution
7 October 1977
gptkbp:replacedBy gptkb:1924_Soviet_Constitution
gptkbp:significance centralized power in the Communist Party
expanded rights on paper for Soviet citizens
used as a model for other socialist constitutions
gptkbp:successor gptkb:1977_Soviet_Constitution
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Soviet_of_the_Union
gptkb:Brezhnev_Constitution
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6