NOTION OF ''SEX CRIME'': EVOLUTION IN SOVIET CRIMINAL SCIENCE FROM 1920''S TILL LATE 1980''S
Analysing a number of scientific viewpoints, the author traces the evolution of the notion of ‘sex crime’ evolved in Soviet criminal law from 1920’s till late 1980’s: transition from an ultrabroad approach to a narrow one; convergence of legislative and scientific classifications; departure from fundamentalist understanding of ‘sex crime’.