ИСТОРИЯ ПРАВОВОГО ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ НКВД СССР – РЕШЕНИЯ ВЫСШИХ ПАРТИЙНЫХ ОРГАНОВ КАК ИСТОЧНИК СОВЕТСКОГО ПРАВА

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the place and role in the legal support of the activities of the NKVD. Particular attention is paid to such a source of So-viet law as the decisions of the highest governing bod-ies of the ruling party. The study provides a description of the types of party decisions as sources of Soviet law. On the example of the legal support of the activities of state security agencies, a theoretical approach is sup-ported, within the framework of which it is proposed to introduce “party normative legal acts” into the number of sources of Soviet law. The author proves that even in the conditions of the decisive role of the party lead-ership in the formation of legislation regulating the activ-ities of the NKVD, party normative legal acts often directly contradicted the norms of the Constitution of 1936, the general principles of law. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that joint party-government decisions in the form of joint resolutions of the Politburo of the AUCP(b) and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR were the main acts that formed the regulatory framework for the functioning of state security agencies.