THE STATE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW SCIENCE AT THE LVIV UNIVERSITY (1945–1975)

The history of legal science at the Law Faculty of Lviv University has a number of gaps, in particular, the post-war period when the Western Ukrainian territories became part of the Soviet Union is poorly studied. The article traces the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideology on the formation of administrative law science in 1945–1975. The author examines the duties and areas of work of lecturers, personnel policy (both at the Law Faculty and at the university as a whole), secondments of faculty members to research centres of the republics to analyse and study the practical activities of state and local authorities, conducting of specialised lectures outside the educational institution, as well as mutual visits to practical and lecture classes for the purpose of ideological control. The author also examines the process of forming departmental libraries: checking literature for ideological content, removing ‘ideologically harmful’ books, and appointing persons responsible for the ideological unification of specialised literature. Special attention is paid to work with students whose research was directed in the appropriate ideological direction. All these aspects represent the direction of development of administrative law science and its formation during this period. Keywords: law faculty, administrative law science, Marxism, Leninism, Bolshevik ideology, the status of science, ideological education, teaching, history of law, history of the university