ОБЩЕНАРОДНОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВО

State of the Whole People

A state expressing the interests and will of all the people, an instrument for building communism. It arose as a result of the complete and final victory of socialism in the USSR and it is the successor to the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat, after the latter had fully discharged its historical tasks and society had entered the period of full-scale building of communism.

The main features of the State of the Whole People are that it is not an instrument for the suppression of some class, it rests on a single social foundation and is a landmark in the transition to communist public self-administration. It remains in being until the complete victory of communism. "Expressing the will of the people, it must organise the building up of the material and technical basis of communism, and the transformation of socialist relations into communist relations, must exercise control over the measure of work and the measure of consumption, promote the people's welfare, protect the rights and freedoms of Soviet citizens, socialist law and order, and socialist property, instil in the people conscious discipline and a communist attitude to labour, guarantee the defence and security of the country, promote fraternal co-operation with the socialist countries, uphold world peace, and maintain normal relations with all countries." (Programme of the CPSU.)

Общенародное государство

См. в ст. Государство.