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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union, had four successive constitutions during its existence. The first (1919) was in Russian and the final three were in Ukrainian.
The final constitution remained effective until the Constitution of Ukraine came into force in 1996.
| Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR | |
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 The 1919 Constitution of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (cover page, by the All-Ukrainian Publishing. Kharkiv, 1920) | |
| Ratified | March 10, 1919 |
| Location | Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Signatories | Presidium of the 3rd All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets [lower-alpha 1] Presidium of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee [lower-alpha 2] |
The constitution was approved by the 3rd All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets on 10 March 1919 and its final version was approved by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee session on 14 March 1919. [1] The draft of the constitution was created on resolution of the 3rd congress of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and the Ukrainian Sovnarkom [1] and was approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. It was based on the 1918 Constitution of the Russian SFSR. [1]
It was the first fundamental law (basic law) of the Ukrainian SSR. [1] The constitution acknowledges that Ukrainian SSR and Ukraine is one and the same, particularly starting with the words in part 2, Article 6, "To the authority of the Soviet power in Ukraine are subjected:". The constitution consisted out of four parts and 35 articles. [1] The text of the constitution starts with the Article 1, "The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic is an organization of dictatorship of working and exploited masses of proletariat and the poorest peasantry over their ages long oppressors and exploiters, capitalists and landowners". The main task of the dictatorship was ensuring "transition from bourgeois system to socialism by carrying out socialist transformations and systematic suppression of all counter-revolutionary manifestations from the side of affluent classes". [1]
| Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR | |
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| Ratified | May 15, 1929 |
| Location | Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union |
| Signatories | The 11th All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets |
| Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR | |
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| Ratified | January 30, 1937 |
| Location | Kyiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union |
| Signatories | The 14th All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (extraordinary) |
The 1978 Constitution of the UkrSSR (Ukrainian : Конституція УРСР 1978 р.) [lower-alpha 3] was a fundamental law of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the fourth and the last of Constitutions of the UkrSSR. [2] It was based on the 1977 Constitution of the USSR (Russian : Конституция СССР and adopted on 20 April 1978 by the extraordinary seventh sessions of Supreme Council of the UkrSSR of 9th convocation. [2] After the 1991 Ukrainian Declaration of Independence, the constitution was amended and renamed into the Constitution of Ukraine. [3] Formally, it lost its validity on 28 June 1996 with adoption of the new constitution. [2]
In its preamble, the constitution indicated on its succession of constitutional development of Ukraine, ideas and principles of which were fixed in constitutions of 1919, 1929, and 1937. [2]
The 1978 Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the UkrSSR was divided into 10 sections and 19 chapters:
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