Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People
근로·피착취 인민의 권리 선언
A constitutional declaration of Soviet Russia drafted by Lenin and adopted by the Third All-Russia Congress of Soviets in January 1918. When the Constituent Assembly refused to adopt the Declaration, the Bolsheviks and Left SRs walked out and the Assembly was dissolved. The Declaration abolished private land ownership, instituted workers' control and bank nationalisation, introduced universal labour conscription, and decreed the creation of a Red Army. It was subsequently incorporated as the preamble to the 1918 RSFSR Constitution, forming the world's first socialist fundamental law.
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: drafting history, rejection by Constituent Assembly 237-136, adoption by Third Congress of Soviets, content in four sections
- Marxists Internet Archive Full English text of Lenin's Declaration from Collected Works, four sections covering republic of soviets, abolition of private land ownership, workers' control, bank nationalisation, labour conscription, Red Army, and foreign policy
- departments.bucknell.edu Bucknell University: 1918 RSFSR Constitution showing the Declaration as Part One (preamble), with full English translation of all chapters
- eudocs.lib.byu.edu Brigham Young University EuroDocs: alternate English translation of the Declaration