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Decree on the Abolition of Estates and Civil Ranks

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Imperial legislation related to the belonging to one or another category of subjects by very significant differences in rights and duties. For example, four groups of natural subjects were divided into persons of taxable and non-taxable status. Persons of non-taxable status (noblemen and honorary
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and civilian ranks of the Russian Empire on the territory of Soviet Russia, and also introduced the concept of Russian citizenship. For example, on its basis, on April 5, 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted a Decree "On the Acquisition of the Rights of Russian Citizenship",
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citizens) enjoyed freedom of movement and received indefinite passports to live throughout the Russian Empire; persons of the taxable state (burghers and peasants) did not have such rights. Belonging to the estate was inherited, the transition from one class to another was rather difficult.
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2. Any titles (nobleman, merchant, tradesman, peasant, etc., princely, county titles, etc.) and the name of civilian officials (secret, state and other advisers) are destroyed and one common name for the entire Russian population is established — citizens of the Russian Republic.
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1. All the estates and class divisions of citizens that existed before in Russia, the estate privileges and restrictions, the estate organizations and institutions, as well as all civil ranks are abolished.
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According to article 3 of the decree, the property of the noble-class institutions, merchant and petty-bourgeois societies was transferred to the respective local and city governments.
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there was an institute of allegiance, which enshrined the legal inequality of the subjects, in many ways it has developed in the
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By 1917, the subjects of the Russian Empire were subdivided into several categories (classes) with a special legal status:
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on the territory of Soviet Russia, to introduce the legal equality of all citizens of the new state.
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urban inhabitants (divided into groups: honorary citizens, merchants, tradesmen and shopkeepers);
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All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
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Newspaper of the Provisional Workers and Peasants Government
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on November 24, 1917. Published on November 25, 1917 in the
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Collection of Laws and government regulations for 1917-1918
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at its meeting on November 23, 1917 and agreed to by the
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On the Acquisition of the Rights of Russian Citizenship
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The decree affected all subsequent legislation of the
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The decree contained the following basic provisions:
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Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks abolished
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Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks
Central Executive Committee
All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
Council of People's Commissars
Newspaper of the Provisional Workers and Peasants Government
Izvestia
estates
titles
civil ranks
Russian Empire
October Revolution
Russian Empire
feudal
Middle Ages
nobles
Inorodtsy
Jews
Finnish
estates
titles
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
RSFSR
USSR
citizenship
Nobility
Table of Ranks
ISBN
5-250-00390-7
On the Acquisition of the Rights of Russian Citizenship
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