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. Greenwood Publishing Group. с. 160. ISBN978-0-313-29363-4. Marital rape was explicitly included in the 1960 code.