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Book cover for Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution (Routledge Studies in Modern European History Book 49)
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Matthew Buster
Interesting delve into the intricacies of the Soviet Constitution. There’s quite a bit to take away, including the actual articles of the constitution. It doesn’t seem as though there was any established process for amending the constitution so a periodic rewrite was necessary. Stalin seemed to be initially interested in feedback from the people but the execution of organizing structured feedback was poor and the feedback was ultimately rejected in a de facto manner
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“our world gains meaning and sense through consistency and predictability. Language would not have been the same had we not repeatedly used the same words to refer to the same objects; science would not have been what it is had experiments and their results not been repeatable. Things gain sense through repetition (or the possibility of repetition). Law has a similar structure: if it is not repeatedly followed, it loses its grounds.”
Roberto Sirvent, Kierkegaard and Political Theology

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