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Yury S. Nikiforov
Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University
Regional and sectoral aspects of inequality and legal delimitation of the production societas in the late USSR (1950-1980)
Nikiforov Yu.S. Regional and sectoral aspects of inequality and legal delimitation of the production societas in the late USSR (1950–1980). Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2021, vol. 27, № 2, pp. 76-81 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-2-76-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-2-76-81
УДК: 94(470)''1950/1980''
Publish date: 2021-05-19
Annotation: The article examines the factors and sources of inequality and legal delimitation of the industrial societas in the USSR in the 1950-1980s. The article raises the question of the key aspects of regional and sectoral inequality of the Soviet societas. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is associated with the paradigm of the "global intellectual history of inequality". Much attention is paid to the analysis of the concepts of "estate" and "class" in modern historiography. The article is based on the ideas of Mikhail Beznin and Tat’yana Dimoni on the legal demarcation of the production societas in the USSR and the formation of special social classes in Soviet Russia in the 1950s-1980s. An important theoretical role is played by the controversial thesis of the researcher Simon Kordonskiy on the existence of special estates – social registration groups – in the USSR. The source base of the study is represented by the official normative documents of the Soviet era, statistical data, unpublished archival documents of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. The article expresses a scientific hypothesis that the main criteria for inequality and legal delimitation of the production societas of the USSR included 3 indicators in the second half of the 20th century – a formally determined size of wages, social security, horizontal social mobility.
Keywords: inequality, legal delimitation, late USSR, regions, centre, social classes, industrial societas, status, social security.
Funding and acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project 19-18-00269
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Author's info: Yury S. Nikiforov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University, Yaroslavl, Russia; Vologda State University, Vologda, Russia. Nikifor2108@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4253-4532