By ensuring for the laboring masses incomparably greater possibility, compared to bourgeois democracy and parliamentarism, to conduct elections and recall of deputies in the easiest and most accessible manner for workers and peasants, the Soviet Constitution at the same time eliminates the negative aspects of parliamentarism—already clarified since the time of the Paris Commune—particularly the separation of legislative and executive powers, the detachment of parliament from the masses, and so forth.

The Soviet Constitution brings the state apparatus closer to the masses also by virtue of the fact that the electoral unit and the basic cell of the state becomes not a territorial district, but a production unit (factory, mill).

The closer connection of the state apparatus with the masses, under the Soviets, makes it possible to create...