Russian Constitution of 1978
supreme law in the Eurasian country until 1993
In 1978, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adopted a new state constitution as its supreme law.
History
At an extraordinary session on 12 April 1978, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR adopted a new republican constitution to replace the old Russian Constitution of 1937. The new Constitution initially consisted of a preamble and 185 articles, and was prepared as part of a process bringing all 15 republican constitutions into line with the new Constitution of the Soviet Union of October 1977. It was the fourth constitution of the Russian SFSR.
Following a turbulent period of democratisation, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and subsequent economic reform, the Constitution was amended several times. It was displaced by the referendum of 12 December 1993, which followed a power struggle between the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, and Russia's legislative institutions—the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet of Russia.
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