The first book about the first director Yu. V. Truntsevsky, L. I. Belyaeva. At the origins of Russian Legal Science (to the 130th anniversary of Evsey G. Shirvindt) / preface by T. Ya. Khabrieva. M.: IZiSP; Publishing house “Jurisprudence”, 2023. – 240 pp.

Abstract

The peer-reviewed monograph by Y. V. Truntsevsky and L. I. Belyaeva is devoted to the study of the life and work of the outstanding Russian lawyer, scientist and administrator E. G. Shirvindt (1891–1958). The authors focused their attention on his scientific works in the field of penitentiary, criminological and criminal legal science in general, as well as on the practical work of E. G. Shirvindt as the head of the Main Directorate of Places of Detention of the NKVD of the RSFSR (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) and the first director of the State Institute for the Study of Crime and the Criminal – the predecessor of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation. The structure of the work is built on the principle of analyzing the “tangle of contradictions” in the history of the formation and development of criminal policy and criminal law science in the first decade of Soviet power, which, at the same time, became the key milestones in the biography of the main character of the book. The authors of the monograph have done an important work in terms of reanimating the scientific heritage of E. G. Shirvindt and rethinking the rich experience of his practical activities to reform the penal system, which makes the book are very relevant in today’s conditions of functioning of the domestic penitentiary department.