Self-Regulation of Property Civil Relations With the Participation of State-Owned Enterprises: Shortcomings of the Soviet Approach

The article examines the peculiarities of the exercise of freedom of contract and freedom of entrepreneurial activity by state-owned enterprises in the USSR under the conditions of the state monopoly in the production of property goods, planned regulation of production and administrative-command economy in general.

The author examines certain historical aspects of the formation of state-owned enterprises as subjects of property relations on the basis of state-owned industries. The article highlights the problems of granting state-owned enterprises with civil legal personality and their participation in property turnover within the framework of the concept of economic calculation, the impact of the planned approach on the scope of freedom of contract and freedom of entrepreneurship of state-owned enterprises in the course of their activities. The author determines the correlation between the plan and the contract as means of regulating property relations and outlines the functions of the contract in the property turnover of the USSR.