By trial and error: project creation problems of the Code of Basic Labor Laws of the USSR in 1925

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of codification of the labor legislation of the USSR in the 1920s. The empirical basics for it was the provisions of Soviet normative legal acts, materials of the practice of legal systematization, including information from unpublished (archival) sources, information from reference and scientific literature of the specified period. The work shows the main trends in the legal regulation of labor and relation closely related to them, characterizes the system of sources of labor law, touches upon the causes for its codification at the all-union level. The process of developing the draft Code of Basic Labor Laws of the USSR, which was supposed to become the first branch codified act of union significance is considered. The grounds, conditions and reasons for this codification are identified, its organizational and technical-legal aspects are investigated, and the subject composition is shown. The reasons are revealed due to which the work on the creation of an all-union labor code was not completed (lack of a clear conceptual and legal basis for codification, instability of social relations regulated by labor law, etc. The influence of the codification on the subsequent development of the Soviet labor legislation is shown.