Subject Index to Soviet Law and Government,Vol. 11 (Summer 1963-Spring 1964)

The fact that the right to housing has now been elevated to the level of constitutional law is a noteworthy achievement of the Soviet system. In connection with this, improvement of housing legislation acquires special significance. I, a legal theorist, have had my interest drawn to the legal conditions for exchange of dwelling space, as presented by a concrete instance.     

Subject Index to Soviet Law and Government,VOL. IV (Summer 1965-Spring 1966)

Mikhail Voslenskii, the outstanding Soviet political scientist, a doctor of historical sciences, who emigrated to the West in 1972, wrote his book Nomenklatura in 1980. It became a best-seller and went through more than twenty repnntings. Now, finally, it is being published in our country     

Author Index to Soviet Law and Government Volume 30 (Summer 1991-Spring 1992)

Two more retirements took place in the upper echelons of the Russian government at the beginning of February [1996]. Two eminent jurists left their posts in the president's administration: Aleksandr Iakovlev, the president's representative to the Federal Assembly, and Valerii Savitskii, the president's representative to the Constitutional Court. Kuranty correspondent Lev Lin interviewed Professor Valerii Mikhailovich Savitskii, a distinguished scholar of the Russian Federation and doctor of legal sciences.     

Subject Index to Soviet Law and Government,Vol. I (Summer 1962-Spring 1963)

The proper utilization of the national supply of gasoline, the struggle against stealing and unbusinesslike dissipation of it, and the elimination of circumstances facilitating the foregoing are important in assuring the normal functioning of automotive transport.     

Index to Soviet Law and Government,Vol. XIV (Summer 1975-Spring 1976)

Should the procurator exercise supervision over the correctness, and hence the legality, of the accounting and accountability of train traffic and the observance of train schedules? Unquestionably, yes. After all, [the failure to keep schedules] is nothing more nor less than a violation of state discipline. Particularly now, at a time when the task of accelerating the nation's socioeconomic development requires—as noted in the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1986-1990 and the Period Ending in 2000—improving the operation of railroads. And this is understandable since rail transport under the Twelfth Five-Year Plan will have to bring about a vast increase in carriage. The strict observance of state discipline is one of the main conditions for the attainment of these objectives. Any indulgence of violators instills them with a feeling of impunity and leads to more serious violations. All this inflicts material harm on the state and prevents the fulfillment of shipping plans.     

Index to Soviet Law and Government Vol. XXIV (Summer 1985-Spring 1986)

Nowadays, in the period of glasnost', any first-year student in a technical college knows that another revolution, this time an information revolution, began 10-15 years ago in the civilized world. For news of this to reach the USSR as well, a "fateful" speech by Academician E. P. Velikhov, in which he proclaimed a need for "universal computerization of education," was required. Touching pictures of first-year students confidently punching the keyboards of personal computers appeared on the pages of the central newspapers and a great deal was written in magazines about the necessity of organizing classes on information processing in "every normal school."     

Soviet Law and Government

Broad preparations are now under way for the forthcoming elections to the supreme Soviets of the union and autonomous republics and the local Soviets of working people's deputies. As we know, elections will take place on March 3 in the RSFSR, the Ukrainian, Belorussian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Moldavian, Latvian, Tajik and Turkmenian union republics, and on March 17 in the Georgian, Azerbaijan, Lithuanian, Kirgiz, Armenian and Estonian union republics.