Legislation of the USSR and international agreements on citizenship issues

    This collection includes the main legislative acts of the USSR on citizenship issues: extracts from the Constitution of the USSR and the constitutions of the Union republics, decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, extracts from the codes of laws on marriage, family and guardianship of the Union republics, etc. Among these acts, some Decrees and Resolutions that have become invalid are also cited. The collection also includes agreements of the USSR and the Union republics with foreign states on the citizenship of persons with dual citizenship, on the option of citizenship, repatriation, extraction from consular conventions, etc. Some of these agreements set deadlines for choosing citizenship or repatriation, which have now expired. However, such agreements are still being addressed now when, in particular, questions arise about whether a particular person has lost (acquired) Soviet citizenship or not, etc. Among the multilateral agreements included in the collection are the Hague Convention on Certain Issues Related to the Conflict of Laws on Nationality of April 12, 1930. and its protocols, as well as the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, concluded in 1961 in New York at the initiative of the United Nations, in which the Soviet Union does not participate. However, these acts express the tendencies and views of individual States in the field of regulating citizenship issues before and after World War II and from this point of view are of cognitive interest. The collection also includes an extract from the 1947 Peace Treaty with Italy, which regulates the issue of citizenship of persons residing in the territory that passes from one State to another. The rules of this agreement are of some interest as a precedent.