M. Yuridicheskaya literatura [Legal literature]. 1983. 192 p. Among the fundamental problems of the history of the Soviet state, there are some that seem to concentrate the main defining features of the socialist system, which ensures a combination of real rights and freedoms of citizens with their duties and responsibilities to society. The problem of human rights and freedoms, which are an integral part of the system of socialist democracy, is actively addressed by legal scholars and historians, most often in connection with the study of the current stage of development of socialist society, the history of Soviet constitutional legislation. 1A special study on the history of the development of individual rights and freedoms in the USSR has not yet been conducted. With the publication of the book by Professor V. M. Kuritsyn, Doctor of Law, this gap is largely filled. His monograph shows the great scientific and political relevance of studying the historical experience and stages in the development of individual rights and freedoms in the USSR, both for revealing the internal laws of the progressive movement of socialist society, identifying current trends and directions in the development of a wide range of human rights in the context of mature socialism, and in connection with the ideological struggle And one more essential aspect determines the relevance of the book. It is necessary and useful for our contemporaries, especially young people, to know how the multi-faceted rights and freedoms that the citizens of the USSR now enjoy and are rightfully proud of were created, strengthened, provided for by the socialist state, and filled with broader content. V. M. Kuritsyn considers this problem based on the provisions of the Marxist-Leninist theory on the determining role of objective conditions, the development of the economic basis and social basis of socialism, and at the same time on the enormous creative significance of the subjective factor-the activities of th ... Читать далее