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- Title
LAW, THE INDIVIDUAL AND PROPERTY IN THE U.S.S.R.
- Authors
Hazard, John N.
- Abstract
The article reports on the creation and amendment of laws related to social and economic development in the Soviet Union. War has brought numerous changes in the life of the Soviet citizen. Restrictions on personal liberty have been multiplied in keeping with the increased danger to the state. New situations have been met with measures based upon fundamental Soviet concepts of the role of the individual and of property in Soviet society. The Soviet state is looked upon by Soviet statesmen as a mechanism devised to guide Soviet citizens to a new stage of economic and political development. The ultimate goal has been set as "communism," which has been characterized by economist Karl Marx, as that form of economic and social organization in which society shall receive from each member according to his ability and dispense to each according to his needs. The theme running through Soviet law as it concerns the relationship between the state and the individual is that the state exists for the benefit of the individual, to guide him and protect him and to better his condition until such time as classes have disappeared and abundance has been achieved so that the state can "wither away."
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; LAW &; economic development; WAR &; society; COMMUNISM &; society; LIBERTY; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1944, Vol 9, Issue 3, p250
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2086077