Legal Responsibility in Civil Procedure before and after the Great October Revolution of 1917

Abstract

This article analyzes civil procedural rules and opinions of scientists on the period before the great October revolution of 1917 and in the first decade after it. It is noted that by the beginning of 20-th century the institution of legal responsibility in the litigation was a well-developed system of measures of material, disciplinary and criminal measures in respect of all actors of civil proceedings: starting from the parties and individuals, contributing to justice, ending with the judges. After the October revolution the old system of legal responsibility in civil proceedings was demolished and built again over the next decades. It was connected not only with the revolution, but with the advent of radically new ideology, which changed the Court's approach to the relationship itself and the people. As the most interesting novels the author notes the emergence of a category of "party responsibility" as a kind of alternative to the disciplinary liability of judges and public authorities for the first time, legislate compensation for actual loss of time. Responsibility for the abuse of procedural law in the first procedural laws of the Soviet authorities also had not yet been developed, although the requirement of good faith behaviour of parties to civil process had already appeared.