Main political and legal concepts of Soviet jurisprudence

The article describes the main political and legal concepts of the Soviet jurisprudence. Among them, the concept of proletarian law as means of dictatorship of the proletariat, the exchange or “labour theory” of law, psychological theory of law, intuitive class law, broad understanding of law, criticism of the theory of legal socialism. The author considers the I Meeting on Science of the Soviet State and Law of 16-19 July, 1938. The paper also analyses the development of the debate on law in the second half of the 1950s; in the early 1960s; in the 1970s; in the early 1980s. and in the 1990-1991s. Each decade in the development of theoretical studies of state and law there emerge new approaches to understanding the law, new themes, problems are raised that are completely original and unique in their thematic and substantial design.