Soviet Russia Constitution of 1918

The constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918, also called the Basic Law (Основной закон, Osnovnoy zakon) which governed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, described the regime that assumed power in the October Revolution of 1917. 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.