Administrativizm as a Paradigm of Soviet Labor Law

Abstract

The article using the example of the Soviet law of 1920-1930 proposes and develops the concept of ad-ministrativizm as a normative paradigm inherent in labor law. The content of the paradigm is understood as state authorities' regulation of labor relations and associated relations by means of a centralized method imposing detailed regulations on the widest possible range of social relations. The author highlights the following as elements of administrativizm: the lack of a fixed scientific-theoretical explanation and justification, a constant and steady increase in the number of regulatory legal acts at the federal level, deterioration of consistency of the sources of a branch, focus on the State supervision and control in the sphere of labor, an exposure of the labor legislation to the influence of political considerations, a tendency of the legal consciousness to opt for a centralized authoritarian settlement of labor relations. The author concludes that modern Russian labor law possesses some features of this paradigm.