The Doctrinal Foundations of Revolutionary (Socialist) Legality in the USSR in the 1930s.

The article analyzes the concept of «socialist legality» in the Soviet state during the 1930s and highlights the main reasons for changes in ideological foundations compared to the previous concept of revolutionary legality in Soviet legal doctrine.

It is concluded that socialist legality was a method of building a socialist economy, and was due to the new tasks of the Soviet state in the economic sphere. The logical development of «revolutionary expediency» and «revolutionary legality», which existed before it at previous stages, is substantiated by the author. I.V. Stalin set in 1926 the task of completing the struggle against looters of public property, which led to the concept of socialist law originating from his views. The distinction between former and new revolutionary (socialist) law was made by Stalin in his report "The Results of the First Five-Year Plan" on January 7, 1933, at the joint plenary session of the Central Committee and Central Committee of CPSU(b). The tasks of socialist legality now were the final destruction of the last remnants of class enemies, undermining the foundations of Soviet system and the struggle to protect public property by all means and methods provided by Soviet law. The concept of social legality was finally consolidated in Article 131 of the 1936 USSR Constitution.