The Constitution of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, adopted on July 10, 1918, was the first socialist constitution in human history. In China, the first translator of the Soviet-Russian Constitution was Zhang Junmai and his Chinese translation of the Constitution was published on November 15, 1919. Since then, there had been more than ten kinds of books containing the full text of the Soviet-Russian Constitution, and tens of thousands of articles citing the provisions of the Soviet-Russian Constitution. The Soviet-Russian Constitution had been spread firstly in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and South Fujian. The Communist Party of China not only actively spread the Soviet-Russian Constitution, but also seriously practiced the Soviet system. Moreover, the 1954 Constitution of the People's Republic of China had embodied fundamental system and the basic spirit of the Soviet-Russian Constitution. Although the Soviet-Russian Constitution, which was born a hundred years ago, has become history, its spirit will last forever. The status and influence of the Soviet-Russian Constitution in the history of world should never be neglected. The cause of socialist constitution that was initiated by the Soviet-Russian Constitution will be brought to a new stage of development and achieve success in the great practice of the socialism with Chinese characteristics. |