Influence of changes in domestic policy upon the penitentiary theory and practice in the late 1920s

The author offers the results of research work devoted to studies of changes having influenced upon the political course of the Soviet state during the late 1920s, upon the development of ideas, view points concerning penitentiary system. The research work was conducted on the basis of the analysis of official periodicals of the Internal Affairs People's Commissariat and the People's Commissariat of Justice, because there were often published the reports on the congresses convened, the papers of theorists and practitioners on the problem items of correctional labor policy development. The results of the research work conducted make it possible to assert that the ideological and political motives took precedence over the scientific approach in the course of the Soviet penitentiary labor system reforming in the late 1920s - early 1930s.