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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE RSFSR OF 1918: LEGISLATIVE CONSOLIDATION OF THE FOREIGN POLICY CONCEPT OF THE SOVIET STATE
- Authors: Grishaeva L.E.1
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- Moscow State University, M.V. Lomonosov
- Issue: No 3 (2024)
- Pages: 1-16
- Section: State and Law
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2073-9532/article/view/304708
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.54449/20739532_2024_3_1
- ID: 304708
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Abstract
The author analyzes the historical experience and reveals the actual significance of the first Russian in the history of Russia, the first Soviet Constitution of the RSFSR of 1918, which approved the basic principles of governance and structure of the new Soviet state. The author of this article draws attention to the important features of the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1918: its norms and provisions go beyond the scope of domestic regulation. The Constitution of the RSFSR of 1918 legislated (documented) the dictatorship of the proletariat and sought to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat on a global scale. To reveal the essence and show the historical significance of the first Soviet Constitution of the RSFSR of 1918 from the point of view of analyzing the foreign policy concept of the new Soviet state is the purpose of this article. In the scientific literature in this perspective, this problem has not yet been specifically posed.
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L. E. Grishaeva
Moscow State University, M.V. Lomonosov
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Email: ligrish@mail.ru
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian History of the XX-XXI Centuries, Faculty of History Moscow, Russia
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