by writing a thorough study entitled "The Law on Factory Work in Russia (1900-
1917)" [22]. Despite the ideology and criticism of pre-revolutionary legislation, the
author managed to adequately consider the legislative provision of the factory
inspection, attracting a significant number of sources to scientific circulation.
The fourth period of the development of Soviet historiography, which covers the
50-80s of the twentieth century is characterized by a certain easing of ideological
pressure. The intensive renewal of labour legislation is the adoption of the
Fundamentals of the USSR and Union Republics legislation on labour in 1970 and the
new Labour Code of the UkrSSR in 1971 have imprinted on scientific research, which
is associated with the establishment of labour law as an independent branch [23,
p. 155]. In addition, attention to labour inspectorates as an organ of supervision and
control over observance of with labour legislation was strengthened due to the
membership of the USSR and the UkrSSR in the United Nations and its structural units
and institutions, in particular, in the permanent UN Commission on Human Rights, the
International Labour Organization (further − the ILO). Accordingly, in the field of
labour law there has been a tendency to study the issue about human rights and their
provision. The membership of the USSR and the USSR in the ILO put the issue of
monitoring over observanceof international legal norms on the agenda of the day. One
of the first issues was investigated by V. Kopiliev [24].
During this period, a number of dissertations were devoted to various aspects of
supervision and control over the observance of labour legislation. In particular,
Y. Kiselyov in the paper "Inspection of Labour in the USSR" describes the legal status
of the technical inspection, which, after the liquidation of the legal inspection remained
in the structure of trade unions, and one of the first in the field of labour law raises the
question of the delineation of state and public components of trade union control [25,
p. 18-19]. The research of various aspects of the role of trade unions in the provision
of labour protection, including through such an effective method as supervision and
control, has become the subject of dissertation research by O. Akopova,
V. Berdychivskyi,
H. Huliaiev,
T. Kuzmina,
O. Nazarova,
L. Nikitinskyi,
V. Semenkov, Y. Smirnov, I. Snyhirova, V. Chibisov and others.
At the same time, research on the history of labour law in this period is practically
absent, since the 1970s, textbooks on labour law virtually lacked material devoted to
historical aspects, finding a rather brief summary in textbooks on the history of state
and law of the USSR [26]. A certain exception to this background was the dissertation
by V. Hudkov entitled "Legal Inspection of Labour in the USSR (Historical and Legal
Research)" [27], in which the author is a practicing legal inspector of the Moscow
Regional Council of Trade Unions, analyzed the stages of the work of labour
inspectorates in the USSR, and focused on in order to strengthen the regime of socialist
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