The Ministry of Justice of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Министерство юстиции СССР, Ministerstvo Yustitsii SSSR), formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union.

The Law of the Soviet Union was the law as it developed in the Soviet Union (USSR) following the October Revolution of 1917. Modified versions of the Soviet legal system operated in many Communist states following the Second World War—including Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Warsaw Pact countries of eastern Europe, Cuba and ...

The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, officially the Supreme Court of the USSR (Russian: Верховный Суд СССР) [1] was the highest court of the Soviet Union during its existence. It was established on November 23, 1923 [citation needed] and was dissolved on January 2, 1992. [2]

Soviet law, law developed in Russia after the communist seizure of power in 1917 and imposed throughout the Soviet Union in the 1920s. After World War II, the Soviet legal model also was imposed on Soviet-dominated regimes in eastern and central Europe.

This article examines the philosophy and structure of the Soviet justice system including the police and the citizen groups, court system, pre-trial and trial procedures, sentencing, and corrections.

The history of Soviet criminal justice under Stalin is detailed according to four phases: (1) design of an experiment; (2) years of collectivization; (3) conservative shift; and (4) Stalinist synthesis.

Feb 10, 2016 · Soviet Justice by Walter Chylinski. Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics CIA Collection cia-collection; nationalsecurityarchive; additional_collections Language English. Soviet Justice by Walter Chylinski Addeddate 2016-02-10 21:42:43 Identifier SovietJustice Identifier-ark

Feb 21, 2022 · Soviet researchers studied crime through a Marxist-Leninist lens. Under Lenin, a humanitarian approach to criminality briefly emerged, but dissipated when Stalin rose to power. When it comes to...

SOVIET criminal law reflects the reconciliation which Soviet Russia has effected in the last ten years between Revolutionary social-eco- nomic values and orthodox legal principles.

in handling routine cases, the soviet system delivers a full range of efficient criminal justice services. however, in cases where state interest is involved, as in the prosecution of dissidents and soviet jews who seek to emigrate or where the crime is considered political and anti-soviet, the system becomes a ruthless instrument of oppression.