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republican institutions. The union government
was in charge of political foreign affairs,
army and navy, foreign trade and means of
communication. The Constitution provided
for the right of each republic to leave the
USSR, but it was of a declarative nature as it
would be necessary to get the permission of
RCP(b). The mechanism of that right was not
even worked out.
March 1924 Mykhailo Hrushevsky returned from
emigration.
October The Moldavian Autonomous Socialist Soviet
1924 Republic (MASSR) was established in the
structure of USSR. It had been within Ukraine
till 1940, when the separate Moldavian
Republic was established in the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics.
March 1925 Voluntary dissolution of the Ukrainian
Communist Party, which shared the views of
national communism. Some of its members
were admitted to the Communist Party
(Bolshevist) of Ukraine (CP(b)U), which was
the only party on the territory of Ukraine.
Other parties’ activity was banned. Thus, a
single-party system was introduced.
May IX All-Ukrainian Congress approved a new
1925 text of Constitution of the USSR. It legally
consolidated Ukraine’s joining the USSR,
Moldavian ASSR establishment as a part of
Ukraine and a new administrative-territorial
division of the republic.
July The establishment of the Ukrainian
1925 National-Democratic Union (UNDU) in

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