Aleksey Georgievich Teplyakov,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Social Justice and Labor in the USSR: The Phenomena of Marginalization and Criminalization
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-1-4
The socialist system in the USSR demonstrates various practices of manipulating the principle of social justice, having come to a relatively stable socio-political system with signs of a paternalistic welfare state. The concrete practice of the USSR period provides a lot of historical material, allowing us to highlight the problems of marginalization and criminalization of workers as a circumstance that turned out to be particularly negative for maintaining the principles of social justice. The actual return of Russia under the Bolshevik regime to the estate model of building society has singled out privileged and discriminated segments of the population in society. Changes in the ratio of these strata directly depended on political and ideological changes within the Soviet state. The article examines the dynamics of changes in state policy towards citizens in order to manipulate them, as well as the formation of a hierarchy that assigns power to the Communist Party and its subordinate structures. As a result of the ideologically motivated influence of the state, labor relations immediately acquired a deformed character, responding to the needs of the ruling elite in the marginalization of a significant part of society. The marginality of Soviet society is an integral part and consequence of deep and conscious criminalization that has engulfed both the ruling class and a significant part of the population. Historical experience shows the successful elimination of the marginalization of Soviet society and the survivability of various criminal practices.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 30.11.2022
How to cite: Teplyakov A.G. Social Justice and Labor in the USSR: The Phenomena of Marginalization and Criminalization // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 1 (27), pp. 50–64. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-1-04.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2023
Keywords: Social justice; Communist Party; nomenclature; marginalization; criminalization; society