A Complaint as a Means of Sociolegal Protection in the Soviet State: A Historical and Legal Aspect

The article examines the issues of legal regulation and filing a complaint as a means of social and legal protection of citizens in the Soviet state. A significant of complaints by the population in various spheres of life was noted. The complaint is interpreted as a universal, and sometimes even an uncontested and desperate reaction of the Soviet people to violations of their rights and legitimate interests, to various negative social phenomena, including such extreme ones as repression. Attempts to improve the mechanisms for filing complaints and responding to them at the stage of democratization of life in the last years of the USSR were noted.