What happened to people's houses during the Soviets' reign?
Upvote:8
Legal definition changed over time, but in practice the situation was perfectly defined by Constitution of USSR (1936), Article 6: "Land, its interior, waters, forests [...] and buildings are property of the state". (Note that USSR had not concept of real estate as a single entity - land, buildings on it and its natural resources were all separate legal entities) In fact, USSR law only had two types of property defined: socialistic (i.e state property) and cooperative (i.e. owned by a kolkhoz, for example). And since cooperative property was effectively a property of a government organization, they were in practice mostly treated as one and the same. Thus, anyone owning land and/or buildings in USSR had it confiscated - simple as that.
It didn't happen at once, though, but the main point relevant to the question was August 20, 1918, when a Decree of VTsIK (which is surprisingly hard to find in English, so here's a Russian version) stated that in the cities with population over 10000 all real estate was transferred to state and its usage was to be regulated by municipal government. For example, in Moscow if a residential building housed less than standard (~9m2 per resident) it was to be converted to communal apartment - in this case previous residents still lived there, but had less living space.
This gradual removal of personal property continued for quite a long time, and was only set in stone in 1936 Constitution of USSR, and after that any and all land and buildings were owned only by the state until 1988, when it was allowed to sell apartments and houses to citizens, although only one real estate item could be sold to a family, and it had to be either the one they are currently residing in, or a newly-built apartment or house. This situation remained until dissolution of USSR, and by then only 0.09% of residences in USSR were privately-owned.
More post
- 📝 Why did the Germans fall behind the Americans in the development of the atomic bomb after an initial lead?
- 📝 How could a black woman be transported directly from Africa to Britain in 1760s?
- 📝 Did medieval Europeans really walk around barefoot in winter?
- 📝 Who is the woman in this United States military propaganda image representing?
- 📝 Were Germans permitted to give the Hitler salute with the left arm?
- 📝 Was the end date of Soviet-Japanese Border War the direct reason of starting Soviet invasion on Poland in 1939
- 📝 When did Robert Briscoe die?
- 📝 Did the Mexican province of Nuevo Mexico have its own provincial flag?
- 📝 Did American Indians disrupt railroads in their regions?
- 📝 Which were the four villages in Attica affected by Cleisthenes' reforms? What happened to them?
- 📝 Origin of an old museum ticket
- 📝 Why did people in 18th century wear wigs?
- 📝 Besides armed insurrection what other resistance was offered by American slaves?
- 📝 When and how did the presidents of states became governors in the U.S.A?
- 📝 Did any of the 50 Destroyers swapped for bases with Great Britain in 1940 sink any Axis military vessels?
- 📝 Were there clay printing presses in the bronze age?
- 📝 Battle which has been decided by an epidemic plague
- 📝 Did Roman citizens vote in more than one legislative assembly?
- 📝 Why couldn't the Weimar Republic peg their currency to another one?
- 📝 Was it common to brush off Hitler's radical remarks as just figures of speech to whip up the supporters among US commentators in the 1930's?
- 📝 Identification of location and type of bi-plane
- 📝 In WWII, how were all pilots/soldiers able to identify enemy vehicles?
- 📝 Do any Roman writings use the phrase Casus belli?
- 📝 What was Wilson's mistake in the 1918 Congressional election?
- 📝 What demographic of people were the Ford Motor's Company biggest customers during the car boom of the early twentieth Century?
- 📝 What sort of signage did ballrooms require?
- 📝 What effect did tanks have on warfare strategies upon their introduction?
- 📝 How many naval mines were cleared for D-Day?
- 📝 What religions were persecuted and disappeared (between 1000 BCE – 1 CE)?
- 📝 What does "new royal power centers" mean?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What happened to people's houses during the Soviets' reign?
- 📝 What happened to those ethnic Greeks who converted to Islam during the Ottoman empire?
- 📝 What changes happened in law enforcement and criminal trials during the Nazi era in Germany?
- 📝 What happened to Muslim spouses who converted to Christianity during the 1923 Graeco-Turkish population exchange?
- 📝 What happened to the French gold at Martinique during WW2
- 📝 What happened at the Battle (or not?) of Luding Bridge, during the Long March of Chinese Communists in 1935?
- 📝 What happened to all the scholars and scientists of Western Rome during the barbarian invasions?
- 📝 What happened to the French royal navy during the french-revolution?
- 📝 What happened when the Çatalhöyük burial holes were full and the houses had no more room?
- 📝 What happened to the french overseas colonies during the beginning of the french revolution?
- 📝 What happened with North African oil during the Second World War?
- 📝 What happened to the foreigners in Germany during the Nazis?
- 📝 What acts of violence happened during the Nazi German annexation of Austria in 1938?
- 📝 During segregation and Jim Crow laws in the US what happened if a person was allowed to use white facilities but other users objected?
- 📝 What drugs were used in England during the High Middle Ages?
- 📝 During the breakup of the Soviet Union, on what basis was citizenship granted or withheld for each of the fifteen new republics?
- 📝 What was the typical peasant's diet like in Europe during the High Middle Ages?
- 📝 What was the status of Arab Christians during the crusades?
- 📝 What happened in Rome, when the western empire "fell"?
- 📝 Did people in China resort to cannibalism during the reign of Mao?
- 📝 What was the role of the Soviet Navy during WWII?
- 📝 Were there any Germans in Japan after the surrender of Germany in May, 1945 and if so, what happened to them?
- 📝 What happened to these buildings near the Seine?
- 📝 On what basis do some historians accuse the British government of genocide during the great Irish famine?
- 📝 What set Checkpoint Charlie apart from the other border checkpoints in Berlin during the Cold War?
- 📝 What was the ratio of German to Soviet losses on Eastern front during different stages of the war?
- 📝 What happened to US's Lend-Lease machinery given to the Soviet Union?
- 📝 What was the strategy to protect the British Museum during the World Wars?
- 📝 What really happened to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?
- 📝 What caused the imposition of strict celibacy for Catholic priests during the 11th century?