Abstract
The organization of’ socialist society’ began November 10, 1917, when the Soviet government, in conformity with the communist ideal of universal equality, issued a decree concerning abolition of all class divisions, designations, titles and distinctions of civil rank. Abolition of private property and the proclamation of the new demagogic maxim: ‘He who does not work, neither shall he eat,’ (Art. 12 of the Constitution) was to level conditions of existence.
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Ovechkin, ‘V torn zhe raione,’ Novyi mir, No. 3, 1954, pp. 35–36, and his other stories (see below p. 188).
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© 1956 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Guins, G.C. (1956). Social Structure. In: Communism on the Decline. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0501-7_12
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