Прообраз судопроизводства по делам об административных правонарушениях советской предвоенной эпохи

Abstract

The author offers the reader a historical and legal excursion about the prerequisites for the emergence of administrative responsibility in Soviet law and the judicial procedure for bringing to it. Although this judicial proceedings is associated with the era of N.S. Khrushchev, the author identifies its pre-war prototype. Administrative liability arose in the Soviet Russia as extrajudicial liability due to the “weakness” of people’s courts. However, later the judicial system became stronger. Against the backdrop of a chaotic and abuse-ridden non-judicial administrative jurisdiction, courts began to cope with new categories of cases. By the Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks dated 08/02/1937, and then by the Instruction of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR dated 22/12/1939, cases of bringing to administrative responsibility for violation of forestry legislation were assigned to the competence of the courts. However, the procedure itself was civil procedural.