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"The State and Social Structure of the U.S.S.R." (1952, PDF)
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Soviet cogitations: 729 Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 01 Mar 2011, 14:10 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Komsomol
 17 Jan 2015, 14:05
https://archive.org/details/TheSocialAn ... eOfTheUSSRI just scanned it. It's basically a 240-page explanation of how the Stalin Constitution operates in practice and an elaboration/clarification of its articles. Table of contents: Quote:CHAPTER I SOVIET SOCIALIST SOCIETY Socialism in the Everyday Life of the People Socialist Property Two Forms of Socialist Property Socialist, Planned Economy The Superiority of Socialist, Planned Economy Over Capitalist Economy Work in Soviet Socialist Economy The Moral and Political Unity of Soviet Society
CHAPTER II THE SOVIET SOCIALIST STATE The Soviets The Soviet Republic The Primary and Fundamental Basis of the Soviet State Guidance of Soviet Society by the State The Superiority of the Soviet State Over the Capitalist State
CHAPTER III THE STATE STRUCTURE OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS The Status of the Peoples Composing the Soviet Union What Is the Soviet Union? What Is a Union Republic? What Is an Autonomous Republic? What Is an Auotonomous Region? What Is a National Area? The Friendship of the Soviet People Is Indestructible
CHAPTER IV THE HIGHER ORGANS OF STATE POWER AND OF STATE ADMINISTRATION OF THE U.S.S.R. How the Organs of State Power Are Formed in Our Country Those Whom the People Have Entrusted with Supreme Power in the Country The Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. The Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R.
CHAPTER V THE COURTS AND THE PROCURATOR'S OFFICE The Old Landlord-Bourgeois Courts The Soviet Courts and Their Functions Soviet Judicial Organs Genuine People's Courts The Soviet Procurator's Office
CHAPTER VI THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF SOVIET CITIZENS Citizens of the Soviet Union The Right to Work The Right to Rest and Leisure The Right to Material Security The Right to Education The Equality of Men and Women The Equality of Citizens of All Nationalites and Races Freedom of Conscience Political Liberties
CHAPTER VII THE FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES OF SOVIET CITIZENS On Rights and Duties To Abide by the Stalin Constitution, to Observe the Soviet Laws To Maintain Labour Discipline Honestly to Perform Public Duties To Respect the Rules of Socialist Intercourse To Safeguard and Fortify Public, Socialist Property An Honourable Duty of Soviet Citizens The Sacred Duty of Every Soviet Citizen
cHAPTER VIII THE LEADING AND DIRECTING FORCE OF THE SOVIET UNION As for the author, from the 1970s Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Quote:Karpińskii, Viacheslav Alekseevich Born Jan. 16, 1880, in Penza; died Mar. 20, 1965, in Moscow. Figure in the revolutionary movement in Russia, publicist, doctor of economics. Hero of Socialist Labor (1962). Became a member of the Communist Party in 1898. The son of a government official.
Karpińskii was expelled from the University of Kharkov for revolutionary activity. He helped organize the Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class in Kharkov in late 1902. Persecuted by the authorities, he emigrated in 1904 to Geneva. Under V. I. Lenin’s direction, he worked for the newspapers Vpered and Proletarii and contributed to Pravda. In World War I (1914–18) he set up the publication of the newspaper Sotsial-demokrat and carried out a number of Lenin’s assignments. Returning to Russia in 1917, Karpińskii worked for the newspaper Derevenskaia pravda and directed the agitation and instruction department of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. During the Civil War of 1918–20, Karpińskii edited the newspaper Krasnaia zvezda, which was published on the propaganda steamship of the same name; he became the editor of the newspaper Bednota in 1918. A member of the editorial board of Pravda and of the editorial boards of several newspapers and magazines from 1918 to 1927, Karpińskii in 1936–37 worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the ACP (Bolshevik). After 1937 he was engaged in scholarly and literary propaganda work.
Karpińskii was a delegate to the Eighth, Sixteenth, and Twenty-second Congresses of the party and was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Lenin wrote more than 100 letters to Karpińskii. Karpińskii was the author of books, pamphlets, and articles on Lenin and on the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. He was awarded three Orders of Lenin. Karpinsky, like Elena Stasova, Grigory Petrovsky, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky and some other "Old Bolsheviks," played a role in condemning "Stalinism" and getting various persons rehabilitated after 1956, so this is another case of someone extolling Stalin because it was what you did back in the day. It's still a pretty good book though.
Soviet cogitations: 11879 Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 06 Dec 2009, 23:17 Philosophized
 17 Jan 2015, 14:33
Quote:CHAPTER VI THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF SOVIET CITIZENS Citizens of the Soviet Union The Right to Work The Right to Rest and Leisure The Right to Material Security The Right to Education The Equality of Men and Women The Equality of Citizens of All Nationalites and Races Freedom of Conscience Political Liberties Good joke. Stalin's "most democratic constitution in the world" wasn't worth the paper it was written on because it didn't apply in reality.
Soviet cogitations: 729 Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 01 Mar 2011, 14:10 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Komsomol
 17 Jan 2015, 14:55
It seems a bit odd to complain that Stalin was too friendly to religion and then claim that freedom of conscience didn't exist under him.
Also I don't see how having a section on political liberties is a "joke." Obviously it isn't a liberal definition.
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