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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Soviet Constitutions

Caroline von Gall

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 07 February 2025

Subject(s):
Constitutional history — Types of constitutions — Comparative constitutional law — Authoritarianism — Communism — Illiberal regimes — Socialism

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The constitutions of the Soviet Union represented the prototype of the socialist constitution, a special type of constitution developed based on Marxist–Leninist ideology and then dictated by the Soviet Union to the countries of the Warsaw bloc and other socialist countries (Feldbrugge; socialism). With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, socialist constitutionalism almost disappeared with the exception of the constitutions of China, Cuba, North Korea, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Simons). After the dissolution, the former socialist...
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