COLLISIONS OF THE FORMATION OF THE PROSECUTOR's SUPERVISION OF PLACES OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY IN UDMURTIA IN THE 1920s-1930s

Abstract

The purpose of the article is an attempt to identify the main problems of the formation in the period between the two wars of the prosecutor's supervision of places of deprivation of liberty in the territories that are now part of the Udmurt Republic. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the involvement of a number of archival materials from among the prosecutor's reports of the 1920s and 1930s, most of them introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The conducted review allows us to identify three main reasons for the protracted formation of prosecutorial supervision of places of deprivation of liberty in the Votskaya (Udmurt) Autonomous Oblast in the 1920s-1930s. Firstly, it is the protracted formation of the penitentiary system itself, the necessity of which was long been questioned in connection with the anticipated imminent construction of a socialist society and the expected final victory of the proletariat and the working peasantry over class enemies. The second reason can be called permanent party, People's Commissariat of Justice and internal prosecutorial purges of prosecutorial and investigative personnel in 1925, 1927, 1929, 1932, 1934 and 1937-1938, which contributed to the regular washing out of employees from the system of prosecutorial supervision. The third reason can be determined by the prolonged lack of systematic professional training of prosecutorial and investigative personnel, which for many years has been complicated by the policy of "korenizatia" and "proletarization" of the People's Commissariat of Justice.