The article examines the development of the right to equal access to public service during the existence of the USSR, based on the general principle of equality of Soviet citizens. It is established that the Constitutions of the USSR established the general principle of equality of rights of Soviet citizens in all spheres of public life, including political life, and therefore in the field of public service. It is noted that the Soviet legislation in the field of public service activities did not have a system-forming, complex character; it was significantly characterized by a fragmentary, fragmentary nature. Attention is focused on the ideologization of the civil service, its nomenclature formation. It is established that the presence of a plurality of normative acts of various departmental orientation did not contribute to the streamlining of the public administration system and the passage of public service. It is revealed that in Soviet times, the Imperial Table of Ranks continued to operate in its methodological basis, but was gradually recognized as outdated, however, since the middle of the twentieth century, some of its provisions in the field of military service have been accepted. It is noted that during the passage of public service, employees acquired knowledge and skills of managerial activity, moral qualities; employees were tasked with a high level of service discipline, striving for loyalty party ideals. It is concluded that the regulated constitutional equality of Soviet citizens in all spheres of life formally existed in a declarative form, because the existing political regime based on prohibitive and permissive legal means did not contribute to the development of the right to equal access to public service; the established political Soviet system laid in every civil servant lawful behavior, discipline, careful attitude to documents, a sense of patriotism. It is recommended to take into account the positive experience in the field of service discipline in the activities of the modern state apparatus.

Soviet civil service, nomenclature, equal accessibility of public service, ideologization, discipline

Fedoseev Georgy Dmitrievich – Postgraduate student of the Department of Constitutional Law and Theory of Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx str., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0004-2003-909X, RSCI AuthorID: 1224551, e-mail: fedoseevgeorgi@gmail.com

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