First Congress of Soviets of Workers', Dekkans', and Red Army Deputies of the Turkmen Socialist Soviet Republic (TurkSSR), Decree on the Entrance of the Turkmen Socialist Soviet Republic (TurkSSR) into the USSR. May 13, 1925

Original Source: Tretii s"ezd sovetov SSSR: stenograficheskii otchet (Moscow: TsIK SSSR, 1925), p. 20.

The great workers' and peasants' revolution which has destroyed the power of capital, exploitation, and oppression, and which has broken the chains of centuries long slavery, proclaimed in its great act of November 2 (15), 1917, the "declaration of the rights of the people of Russia", the fundamental principles of equality, of sovereignty, and their right of self-determination.

Until the present time, the period of civil war has prevented the full realization of the principles proclaimed.

The peoples of Central Asia, after the restoration of general peace in the country, have manifested their will in their numerous assemblies, congresses, and conferences, to create in Central Asia independent national republics.

At present the first congress of Soviets of workers', dekkans', and red army deputies of the TurkSSR, in accordance with the general aim of the masses of workers and dekkans for solidarity and fraternal association, and in order to create a united front for the common fight against world capital, as well as taking into consideration the fact that only the USSR is able to secure external safety and freedom of economic growth and national development of the people-decrees:

To enter the USSR in conformity with the principles stated in the constitution of the Union and to charge the plenipotentiary delegate of the TurkSSR to submit the present decree to the next all-Union congress of Soviets.

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