High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first Russian Constitution, which governed the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, described the regime that assumed power in the October Revolution of 1917. This constitution formally recognized the working class as the ruling class of Russia according to the principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The constitution also stated that the workers formed a political alliance with the peasants. This constitution gave broad guarantees of equal rights to workers and peasants. It denied, however, the right of the bourgeoisie or those who supported the White armies in the Civil War (1918–21) to participate in elections to the soviets or to hold political power.