Codification projects of Soviet All-Union legislation (late 1920s – early 1950s)

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The article shows the stages of codification of All-Union legislation. In the 1920s the legislation of the RSFSR was codified. After the formation of the USSR the all-Union legislation developed. At the end of the 1920s, the first ideas about the advisability of the transition to all-Union codification appeared. After the adoption of the Constitution of the USSR in 1936, drafts of the Criminal Code of the USSR, the Civil Code of the USSR, the Code of Criminal Procedure of the USSR, the Civil Procedure Code of the USSR are being developed. The process of preparation of projects and the result obtained are analyzed. The political and legal reasons for the refusal of the all-Union codification are revealed.

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Tatiana F. Yashchuk

Dostoevsky Omsk State University

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Email: yashukomsu@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2930-8557

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of the Theory and History of the State and Law

Russian Federation, Omsk

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