Soviet constitution of 1918

The Soviet first Constitution, which controlled the Soviet Federative Socialist République of Russia, described the mode which seized the power at the time of the Russian Révolution of 1917. This constitution recognized formally the party Bolshevik as a leader of the Russia, thus modifying the principle of Dictatorship of the proletariat. The constitution also specified that under the direction of the Bolsheviks, the Travailleur S formed an political alliance with the Paysan S. This constitution assured great of equal rights to the workers and the peasants but refused on the other hand political straight in particular of participation in the elections of Soviets to the social groups which were opposed to the new government or supported the Russian white during the Civil war (1918-21).

The supreme capacity was allotted to the Congrès of the Soviets, which was made up representatives of the councils of Soviet S buildings of the whole of Russia. The management committee of the Congress of the Soviets - known under the name of Executive Central committee - acted as “a supreme body of the capacity” between the sessions of the congress and, as a collective president of the State.

The congress recognized the Conseil of the police chiefs of the people (Sovet narodnykh kommissarov-Sovnarkom) as administrative arm of the young government and defines its reponsabilities as the “general administration of the businesses of the state” (Sovnarkom exerted the governmental authority of November 1917 until the adoption of the constitution of 1918).

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