The first criminal law code in Soviet Russia differed from Tsarist law on rape: "although the Tsarist law explicitly excluded marital rape, the Soviet law code of 1922 did not." Rule, Wilma (1996). Russian women in politics and society. [S.l.]: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN978-0-313-29363-4. (pede subscrição (ajuda)) Marital rape was explicitly included in the 1960 code.