Major Controversial Issues in Legislation on Soviet Citizenship

Abstract

The constantly expanding and diverse relations between the Soviet Union and other states also influence internal social relationships in developed socialist society. There is a widening of social relationships defined by circumstances of international origin, i.e., circumstances that, in the final analysis, arise from the coexistence of different states in the international arena. This process is manifested in many sectors of our system of social relationships. During the past 15-20 years, norms have appeared and developed, in various branches of the law, whose object is social relationships with international features. Such relationships also possess criteria that, from the standpoint of the structure of Soviet law, provide grounds for classing them with the subjects regulated by various branches of the law. Nevertheless, there are grounds for regarding them in the context of a single process of development embracing all Soviet law. As a whole, these groups of legal norms define the interaction of the Soviet legal system with the legal systems of foreign countries.