THE SECOND SOVIET CONSTITUTION OF THE CHIASSR OF 1978: HISTORY AND STAGES OF FORMATION

Abstract

This article is devoted to the adoption of the second and last Soviet constitution of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of 1978. In Russian constitutionalism, following the Constitution of the USSR of 1977 and the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978, it is recognized as the constitution of «developed socialism». The study, based on historical and legal facts, shows its role in the construction of the Soviet statehood of the Chechens and Ingush. The author emphasizes that the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978, as a people's Basic Law, favored democratic reforms in the republic until the adoption of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of the Chechen-Ingush Republic in 1990, but failed to ensure the union of the peoples of Chechen-Ingushetia after the collapse of the USSR and became the cause of the political crisis in region.