Environmental Policy and Law in the USSR

March 1987
Citation:
17
ELR 10068
Issue
3
Author
Oleg S. Kolbasov

The Soviet Union is the first country in which socialism as a philosophical concept has become a reality. Now the USSR is developing with the hope for a better future not only for its own people, but also for mankind. However, this development is not a smooth one. Going this way, we meet difficulties, we make miscalculations, and sometimes we are simply mistaken. Sometimes we go faster, but sometimes we go slower.

Nowadays, we are at the very beginning of the acceleration of socio-economic development of Soviet society. This direction was pointed out by the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). But even before the Congress, it was perfectly clear that the country needed to renovate all aspects of its policy. This new course was declared by the new Party and State leadership, headed by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. This new course is unanimously supported by the nation.

Professor Kolbasov, often regarded as the father of Soviet environmental law, is Head of the Department of Legal Problems of Environmental Protection, part of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Professor Kolbasov is also Vice-Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Russia Society for the Protection of Nature. The Environmental Law Institute has served as host to Professor Kolbasov during his visit to the United States, pursuant to the 1972 Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection between the U.S. and the USSR, ELR STAT. 40327.

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