Features of legal regulation of inheritance in the new economic policy

The article analyzes the legal regulation of inheritance in the first years of the Soviet system. The author traces the development of the idea to limit the size of the property transferred by inheritance, from the rules of Decree 1918 «On abolition of inheritance» to the provisions of the Civil Code of 1922. The change in the approach of the legislator is marked to determine the composition of inheritance, under the influence of political processes and the needs of the market economy, existed in the young Soviet Republic for a short time during the New Economic Policy. The specificity of legislative regulation of transfer by inheritance of certain types of property, property rights is revealed.