Legal and party nomenklatura foundation of the soviet state bureaucracy in the years 1917-1929

About the author:

Artyom M. Vaganov,

Abstract:

This article presents the results of a study becoming a model of the Soviet nomenklatura state bureaucracy, prerequisites and consequences. Marked theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of public administration. Study the legal regulation of the functioning of the party and the Soviet state bureaucracy. On the basis of scientific concepts in the domestic jurisprudence formulated the author's point of view on the problems of the definition of acts of the RSDLP (b), of the RCP (b), the CPSU (b) in the sources of Soviet law. We studied the legal and political basis for relations in the Soviet civil service by determining the scope of legal regulation and the predominant influence of the Communist Party in the regulation of relations connected with the process of the civil service, with the definition of the rights, duties and responsibilities of employees.

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