Fulfillment of social obligations during the Soviet period of the Russian state and law development

R.R. Dolotina

Kazan Branch of the Russian State University of Justice, Kazan, 420088 Russia

E-mail: rdolotina@mail.ru

Received January 27, 2021

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.2.17-24

For citation: Dolotina R.R. Fulfillment of social obligations during the Soviet period of the Russian state and law development. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2021, vol. 163, no. 2, pp. 17–24. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.2.17-24. (In Russian)

Abstract

The article deals with issues related to the fulfillment of social obligations by the Russian state during its Soviet period. It was noted that the Soviet state began elaborating a system of medicine provision and medical treatment for workers in the first year after it had been established. The development periods and the features of social obligations (those concerning public education, labor protection, as well as social and cultural sphere) were singled out. The review of the key studies on social security revealed certain problems related to the formation of social obligations and their fulfillment. The primary emphasis was placed on the fact that the Soviet state undertook an extensive social obligation to provide housing for all citizens, and housing projects turned out to be central to the Soviet social programs. Prefabricated five-story houses were quickly and massively built in cities and rural areas, where families were granted individual apartments in substitution of their rooms in communal apartments. The lack of proper social and pension security for collective farm workers was found. In reality, the care about the working conditions and the quality of life of collective farm workers was vested in the managing bodies of agricultural associations, while the central control was diluted. The social security of disabled citizens was analyzed. The labor activity was welcomed and seen as the natural choice by the Soviet citizens, who recognized its corrective, restorative, and preventive value. The state channeled resources to studying various types of disabilities, prosthetics, vocational rehabilitation and to training of the relevant staff. It was concluded that the Russian state developed a streamlined system of social obligations to its citizens during the Soviet period, and the citizens were legally entitled to demand the fulfillment of these social obligations.

Keywords: social obligations, Soviet period, social insurance, social security, types of social security

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