The

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, part of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

, had four successive

constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these pr ...

s during its existence. The first (1919) was in Russian and the final three were in

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

. The final constitution remained effective until the

Constitution of Ukraine The Constitution of Ukraine ( uk, Конституція України, translit=Konstytutsiia Ukrainy) is the fundamental law of Ukraine. The constitution was adopted and ratified at the 5th session of the ''Verkhovna Rada'', the parliament ...

came into force in 1996.

Constitution of 1919

The constitution was approved by the

3rd Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (disambiguation) * Third Avenue (disambiguation) * H ...

All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets The All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets ( uk, Всеукраїнський з'їзд Рад, russian: Всеукраинский съезд Советов) was the supreme governing body of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1917–38. F ...

on 10 March 1919 and its final version was approved by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee session on 14 March 1919. The draft of the constitution was created on resolution of the 3rd congress of the

Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine ( uk, Комуністична Партія України ''Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny'', КПУ, ''KPU''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Украины) was the founding and ruling ...

by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and the Ukrainian Sovnarkom and was approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. It was based on the 1918 Constitution of the Russian SFSR.Boiko, V.
The 1919 Constitution of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (КОНСТИТУЦІЯ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ СОЦІАЛІСТИЧНОЇ РАДЯНСЬКОЇ РЕСПУБЛІКИ 1919)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2008 It was the first fundamental law ( basic law) of the Ukrainian SSR. The constitution acknowledges that Ukrainian SSR and Ukraine is one and the same, particularly starting with the words in part 2, Article 6, "To the authority of the Soviet power in Ukraine are subjected:". The constitution consisted out of four parts and 35 articles. The text of the constitution starts with the Article 1, "The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic is an organization of dictatorship of working and exploited masses of proletariat and the poorest peasantry over their ages long oppressors and exploiters, capitalists and landowners". The main task of the dictatorship was ensuring "transition from bourgeois system to socialism by carrying out socialist transformations and systematic suppression of all counter-revolutionary manifestations from the side of affluent classes".

Parts and articles

# Fundamental provisions # Structure of Soviet power ## Organization of central power ## Organization of Soviet power locally # Declaration of rights and obligation of working and exploited people of Ukraine # About coat of arms and flag of Ukr.S.S.R.

Constitution of 1929

Articles

# Principles # Organizations of Soviet Power ##Organs of Central Power ### About All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets ### About All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee ### About Presidium of All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee ### About Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic ##Organs of Local Power ### About Congress of Soviets ### About Executive Committees ### About Soviets of Deputies ### About Competence of Local Organs of Power # About electoral rights # About Budget of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic # About Coat of Arms, Flag and Capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic

Constitution of 1937

Parts and articles

# Social organization # State organization # Higher organs of state power of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic # Organs of state administration of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic # Higher organs of state power of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic # Organs of state administration of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic # Local organs of state power # Budget of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic # Court and the Prosecutor's Office # Principle rights and obligations of citizens # Electoral system # Coat of arms, flag, capital city # Constitutional amendments procedure

1978 Constitution of the UkrSSR

The 1978 Constitution of the UkrSSR ( uk, Конституція УРСР 1978 р.) was a fundamental law of the

, the fourth and the last of Constitutions of the UkrSSR. It was based on the 1977 Constitution of the USSR (russian: Конституция СССР and adopted on 20 April 1978 by the extraordinary seventh sessions of Supreme Council of the UkrSSR of 9th convocation. Formally, it lost its validity on 28 June 1996 with adoption of the 1996

. In its preamble, the constitution indicated on its succession of constitutional development of Ukraine, ideas and principles of which were fixed in constitutions of 1919, 1929, and 1937.

Articles

The 1978 Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the UkrSSR was divided into 10 sections and 19 chapters: *

Preamble A preamble is an introductory and expressionary statement in a document that explains the document's purpose and underlying philosophy. When applied to the opening paragraphs of a statute, it may recite historical facts pertinent to the subj ...

Notes

References

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text of the 1978 Constitution
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