Resolution on the Admission of the Turkmen Socialist Soviet Republic (TurkSSR) and the Uzbek Socialist Soviet Republic (UzSSR) into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). May 13, 1925

Original Source: Tretii s"ezd sovetov SSSR: stenograficheskii otchet (Moscow: TsIK SSSR, 1925), pp. 22-3.

The third congress of Soviets of the USSR welcomes with great satisfaction, the free expression of the will of the people's of the TurkSSR and the UzSSR on their entrance into the composition of the USSR.

The third congress of Soviets of the USSR calls attention to the fact that, in conformity with the "declaration of the formation of the USSR", admission into the Union is open to all socialist soviet republics already in existence, as well as of those which may be formed in the near future.

The entrance of the above-mentioned republics into the USSR is a new proof that the USSR is actually a free union of peoples on a basis of equality and a true support for oppressed peoples.

The third congress of Soviets of the USSR decrees:

1. To extend, in conformity with paragraph "c", article 1, of the constitution of the USSR, the application of the agreements on the formation of the USSR also to the TurkSSR and the UzSSR.

2. To charge the presidium of the third congress of Soviets of the USSR with the drafting of a project of amendments of the constitution of the USSR necessarily resulting, from the fact of the entrance into the composition of the USSR of two new union republics, and with submitting this project for ratification by the present congress of Soviets.

Source: Walter Russell Batsell, Soviet Rule in Russia (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), Chapter VI.