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- ↑ The 7th All-Union Congress of Soviets, 1935.
- ↑ Kavass, Igor L.; Christian, Gary I. (2021). "The 1977 Soviet Constitution: A Historical Comparison". Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 12 (3): 553–554 – via Vanderbilt University.
- ↑ Lomb, Samantha (2018). Stalin's constitution: soviet participatory politics and the discussion of the 1936 draft constitution. Routledge studies in modern European history (first published ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-72184-5.
