Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Soviet Era

Abstract

The article analyzes such a complex phenomenon as corruption in the USSR, highlights the main legislative acts aimed at combating corruption during the Soviet era. The analysis of features of legal responsibility for corruption crimes during the Soviet power on the basis of examples of law enforcement practice, and also judicial decisions of that period is carried out. Corruption in Soviet Russia was a rather acute problem, which the Soviet authorities throughout the existence of the USSR tried to solve. Combating corruption crimes by the state was very difficult for the state authorities due to the high latency of such crimes. Analyzing the legislative framework, we come to the conclusion that throughout the Soviet era, the Government developed and adopted normative-legal acts aimed at regulating and reducing corruption in the USSR, combating abuse of power during the Soviet Union. As history and modern reality show, despite the abundance of various decrees, decrees and other legal acts adopted since ancient times, the effect of them was insignificant. To get rid of such phenomenon it was not possible to governors neither in antiquity, nor in Soviet time.