The period of the NEP was marked by a sharp polemic of legal studios. At the
same time, the views of the Ukrainian Soviet administrative law researcher,
O. Yevtykhiiev, were indicative of the discussion of the perception of organizational-
managerial relations in the field of labour. On the one hand, the scientist saw in the
development of the legal system a tendency to separate the norms governing the
administration in the field of internal management, into an independent legal
discipline − worker law. On the other hand, O. Yevtykhiiev believed that the worker
law, which grew from the private-legal institute of the contract of personal hiring, can
not, considering the peculiar changes in the new conditions of social life, be treated as
civil law, and accordingly should be considered as one of disciplines of the public,
namely, administrative law [18, p. 21].
Thus, during this period, attempts were continued to substantiate the nature of
labour relations, on the one hand, adhering to Marxist-Leninist dogmas, and on the
other hand, given the specificity of the multiculturalism of the economy during the
period of the NEP. Its imprint was superimposed on the fact that the vast majority of
scientists began their activities in the pre-Soviet period and therefore used previously
acquired methods of scientific research. It should also be kept in mind that the scholars
were forced to cover the development of labour legislation "... from the standpoint of
dominant ideology, while showing more or less measure of political bias" [19, p. 15].
The third period of Soviet historiography, which began after the closure of the
NEP and the nationalization of trade unions in 1933, continued until the early 1950s of
XX century. Changes in Soviet society in the 1930s and 1940s required new
generalizations, as labour concepts developed during the NEP did not correspond to
the new party line aimed at "socialist reconstruction". Characteristic features were the
continuous "quotation" of the classics of Marxism-Leninism, a coherent critique of
foreign experience of legal regulation in the field of labour. However, this period was
marked by scientific achievements. The researcher of labour law and at the same time
a well-known specialist in the field of the theory of law, M. Aleksandrov at the
conceptual level developed the theory of socialist labour relations, for the first time
highlighted the derivatives of labour relations, emphasized the combination in a single
labour law relations of property and organizational elements, criticized M. Aharkov's
position regarding his proposal to attribute organizational relations in the field of labour
to the subject of administrative law [20, p. 148-149]. In general, scientific
developments in the field of supervision and control were limited to their limited
analysis in the context of the institute of labour safety, although the latter, in the period
of a forced pursuit of the implementation of the first five years, was given much less
attention than during the NEP.
Historical and legal issues, including the analysis of factory legislation, were
devoted to the work of K. Horshenin [21]. I. Shelymahin addressed the same subject
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