1918 Constitution of Soviet Russia

The constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 was the first republican constitution of Russia. It put into the law the results of the October Revolution of 1917 and gave the name to the state: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. This constitution, which was ratified soon after the Declaration Of Rights Of The Working And Exploited People,^[1] formally recognized the working class as the ruling class of Russia according to the principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat, therein making the Russian Soviet Republic the world's first constitutionally socialist state.