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Правовая природа отношений между союзными республиками до заключения Договора об образовании СССР
The article reveals contradictory approaches, existing in the Soviet and modern doctrine, to the definition of the legal nature of relationships between union republics before the conclusion of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR in 1922. The author conducts a legalistic analysis of treaties and agreements between union republics: the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia, the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia, the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, and the Khwarazmi Soviet People's Republic. The author distinguishes the factors that complicate the determination of the nature of relationships between union republics: the political and ideological influence, the divergence of practice and its legal formalization, the heterogeneous legal status of union republics. The article consistently studies relationships of union republics with Soviet Russia and union relationships within the framework of the Union Treaty of Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Republics formalized in union agreements. Based on the established differences in the legal status of union republics, the author concludes that the nature of union relationships was heterogeneous.