"The victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution found its legal expression in the Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, adopted by the Fifth All–Russian Congress of Soviets in 1918, which included the ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People’.
The victorious proletariat in alliance with the poorest peasantry formalized its dictatorship by law, the task of which was to abolish the exploitation of man by man and divide society into classes, to ruthlessly suppress the exploiters and establish a socialist organization of society", said Kalinin.
[1] On the first day of the congress, Joseph Stalin made a keynote speech on the draft new constitution of the Soviet Union.
His report contained an analysis of the fundamental changes in the life of the country that occurred from 1924 to 1936 and required the adoption of a new constitution.
In order to establish the final text of the constitution, taking into account the amendments and additions proposed both during the 5-month public discussion and at the congress itself, an Editorial Committee was formed consisting of 220 people, chaired by Stalin.