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The Russian Constitution of 1906 contained an introduction and eleven chapters: [6] comprising a total of 124 articles: The Introduction (Articles 1–3) declared that Russia was "one and indivisible", [7] and mandated the use of Russian in the armed forces and other public institutions. [8]
The Decree on the system of government of Russia [b] [1] was a basis of the new constitution declared in 1918 in Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1917, during the five-month interregnum between the downfall of the Alexander Kerensky government and the official declaration of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. [2]
The Constitution of the Russian Federation (Russian: Конституция Российской Федерации, romanized: Konstitucija Rossijskoj Federacii) was adopted by national referendum on 12 December 1993 and enacted on 25 December 1993.
Nevertheless, the referendum marked the end of the constitutional period defined by the constitution adopted by the Russian SFSR in 1978, which was amended many times while Russia was a part of Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union. Although Russia would emerge as a dual presidential–parliamentary system in theory, substantial power would rest in ...
The order was highly controversial. Leon Trotsky may have called it "the only worthy document of February Revolution," [7] but others have seen the measure as an effort to prevent continuation of Russia's war effort by crippling the government's control of the military, or even as part of a plot by the Bolsheviks to undermine the Provisional Government.
The constitution explicitly denied political power to higher classes of Russian society or to those who supported the White armies in the Civil War (1918–21). To prevent the higher classes from re-claiming state power, the first article called for all workers and peasants to be armed and organized into a Red Army while the higher classes be ...
The Russian Revolution of 1905, [a] also known as the First Russian Revolution, [b] was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906, the country's first.
Russian Constitution of 1906; 1918 Constitution of Soviet Russia; Russian Constitution of 1978; Constitution of Russia; D. Decree on the system of government of ...