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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.81.42.015

ON THE WAY TO STATE AUTONOMY: THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF THE NORTH OSSETIAN ASSR (1937).

Kobakhidze, Elena I.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2021. IIS 42 (81).
Abstract:
The article analyzes the Constitution of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist
Republic of 1937 as one of the most important documents on the recent history of North Ossetia,
which firstly defined its independent state-political status as a Soviet autonomous republic
within the RSFSR. In the search for forms of national self-determination, North Ossetia changed
its status several times: being an ordinary territorial-administrative unit in the administrative
system of late imperial Russia, Ossetia, even after the approval of Soviet power, was included in
the district model of the territorial structure of the Mountain ASSR. Only after the abolition of
the Mountain Republic, North Ossetia has got the status of an autonomous region within Russia
with somewhat expanded administrative self-dependence, albeit with a rather limited scope of
powers that extended mainly to the economic and cultural sphere. However, just then North
Ossetia for the first time formed its stable and viable power and administrative institutions, the
activities of which were regulated by union and republican (RSFSR) legislation. A new stage in
the development of North Ossetian statehood fell on the second half of the 1930s, when the new
Constitution of the USSR declared the granting of the status of autonomous republics to the
former national autonomous regions, including the North Ossetian Autonomous Region, and
provided them with legal grounds for adopting their own constitutions, and so endowed them of
state and political status. A comparative analysis of the constitutions of the USSR, RSFSR and
NOASSR shows that the organizational and legal foundations of national statehood, enshrined
in the Constitution of the NOASSR, were formulated based on the priority of the all-Union
and Russian constitutions, albeit taking into account local specifics. At the same time, the first
Soviet constitution of North Ossetia, adopted by its legislative institution and defining the legal
foundations of political autonomy, marked the end of the process of formation of the national
statehood of North Ossetia and opened a new page in its socio-political history.
Keywords: North Ossetia, national statehood, autonomous region, autonomous republic, constitution
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