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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Constitution (fundamental law). [1] (194?)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605213 and id is 1 raw text is: UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics1
The Orga NICIo of Society
Artiole 1
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of workers
and peasants.
Article 2
The Soviets of Working People's Deputies, which grew and attained strength
asa result of the overthrow of the landlords and capitalists and the achievement
of the dictatorship of the proletariat, constitute the political foundation of the
U.S.S.R-
*  -                Article a
-      Ie the U.&*TS.R. all power belongs to the working people of town and country
as represented by the Soviets of Working People's Deputies.
Article 4
The socialist system of economy and the socialist ownership of the means
and instruments of production firmly established as a result of the abolition of
the capitalist system of economy, the abrogation of private ownership of the meant
and instruments of production and the abolition of the exploitation of man by man,
constitute the economic foundation of the U.S.S.R.
Article 6
Socialist property in the U.S.S.R. exists either in the form of state
property (the possession of the whole people), or in the form of cooperative ead
collective-farm property (property of a collective farm or property of a cooperative
asociation).
Article 6
The land, its natural deposits, waters, forests, mills, factories, mines,
rail, water and air transport. banks, post, telegraph and telephones, large state-
organized agricultural enterprises (state farms, machine and tractor stations and
the like) as well as municipal enterprises and the bulk of the dwelling houses in
the cities and industrial localities, are state property, that is, belong to the
whole people.
Article 7
Public enterprises in collective farms and cooperative organizations, with
their livestock and implements, the products of the collective farms and cooperative
organizations, as well as their cormon buildings, constitute the common, socialist
property of the collective farms and cooperative organizations.
Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
State Publishing House of Political Literature, 1038, pp. 9-111.

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