Abstract. The article reveals features of socialist federalism as a form of state unity of new Russia. The study of the model of socialist federalism, enshrined in the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1918, allows to explain many features of Russian federalism, which does not correspond to any of the known in the world models of federal state structure.
Keywords: socialist federal state, decentralization, territorial integrity, federal system, national-territorial principle, unitary principles, right of secession, state with autonomous inclusion, freedom and free association, right of peoples to self-determination, class essence of federal state, principle of democratic central state
For citation: Alekseev S. O., Savelyev A. S. Principles of federalism in the first soviet constitution of 1918. Izvestija of the Saratov Military Institute of the National Guard Troops. 2025;(1):51-55. Available from: https://svkinio.ru/2025/1(18)/Alekseev_Savelyev.pdf. (In Russ.).
