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Abstract
Political and foreign relations aspects, rather than justiciability and legal instrumentalities, have always been preponderant in So- viet human rights doctrine. It is widely admitted now, at least outside the Soviet Union, that the main purpose for the much- publicized inclusion of an extensive catalogue of basic rights in the 1936 Constitution of the USSR can only have been the crea- tion of a favorable impression upon the Western democracies.' One has to remember that this happened not only at a time when the victims of Stalinist terror were numbered in millions (making the constitutional pronouncements a lugubrious farce) but also at a time when Stalin was eager for his young Soviet state to acquire a degree of respectability.
Recommended Citation
F.J.M. Feldbruggge,
The Soviet Human Rights Doctrine in the Crossfire between Dissidents at Home and Critics Abroad,
13 Vanderbilt Law Review
451
(1980)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol13/iss2/19