Constitution of the Soviet Union

The Soviet Union was governed by three versions of its Constitution, following the 1918 Soviet Constitution which established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the immediate predecessor of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.These three constitutions were:1924 Soviet Constitution1936 Soviet Constitution1977 Soviet ConstitutionThe political theory underlying the Soviet Constitution differed from the political theory underlying constitutions in the West. Democratic constitutions are fundamentally prescriptive; they define a set of political relations to which their governments and citizens aspire. By contrast, Soviet constitutions purported to describe a set of political relationships already in existence. Thus, as changes occurred in the socioeconomic and political systems, the government adopted new constitutions that conformed to the new sets of realities.
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