num_pages: 127
description: The constitution repealed restrictions on voting and added universal direct suffrage and the right to work to rights guaranteed by the previous constitution. In addition the Constitution recognized collective social and economic rights including the rights to work rest and leisure health protection care in old age and sickness housing education and cultural benefits. The constitution also provided for the direct election of all government bodies and their reorganization into a single uniform system. It was written by a special commission of 31 members of which Joseph Stalin chaired.
language: English
title: Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
publisher: State Publishing House of Political Literature