Toward Conceptualization of the Law on the Press and Information

Abstract

On October 27 (November 9), 1917, V.I. Lenin signed one of the first acts of Soviet power: the Decree on the Press, which was of a provisional nature and which presupposed the establishment of total freedom for the press "within the limits of responsibility before the courts, according to the broadest and most progressive law in this respect,"¹ in the future. However, a law to this effect was not passed. It essentially "dissolved" in a multitude of normative acts.