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Supreme Court Of The Soviet Union
The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, officially the Supreme Court of the USSR () was the highest court of the Soviet Union during its existence. It was established on November 23, 1923 and was dissolved on January 2, 1992. The Supreme Court of the USSR included a Military Collegium and other elements which were not typical of supreme courts found in other countries, then or now. Its role, power and function evolved throughout the history of the USSR. The first chairman of the Supreme Court was Nikolai Krylenko. History Creation of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union Article 12 of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics articulated the functions of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union "with the functions of supreme judicial control" under the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. Therefore, the question of the need to create a Supreme Court arose after the Soviet Union was established. On November 23, 1923, the ''Statute on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and the president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism but moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s. Gorbachev was born in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai, Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, to a poor peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian heritage. Growing up under the rule of Joseph Stalin, in his youth he operated combine harvesters on a Collective farming, collective farm before joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Procurator General Of The Soviet Union
The Procurator General of the USSR () was the highest functionary of the Office of the Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of the Soviet Union. History The office of procurator had its historical roots in Imperial Russia, and under Soviet law ''public procurators'' had wide-ranging responsibilities including, but not limited to, those of public prosecutors found in other legal systems. Offices of Public Procurators were and are still used in other countries adhering to the doctrine of socialist law. The Office of Public Procurator of the USSR was created in 1936, and its head was called Public Procurator of the USSR until 1946, when it was changed to Procurator General of the USSR. According to the 1936 Soviet Constitution, the Procurator General exercised the highest degree of direct or indirect (through subordinate public procurators) control over the accurate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Justice (Soviet Union)
The Ministry of Justice of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (, ''Ministerstvo Yustitsii SSSR''), formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly (until 1946) known as the People's Commissariat for Justice (, ''Narodniy Komissariat Yustitsi'i'') abbreviated as Наркомюст (''Narkomiust or sometimes known in English as "Narkomyust"''). The Ministry, at the All-Union (USSR-wide) level, was established in the 1936 Soviet Constitution, and was in turn based upon the People's Commissariat for Justice of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) formed in 1917, with the latter becoming subordinate, along with the other republican ''Narkomyust''s, to the Union-level People's Commissariat of Justice of the USSR. The Ministry was led by the Minister of Justice, prior to 1946 a Commissar, who was nominated by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and confirmed by the Presidium of the Supreme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Terebilov
Vladimir Terebilov (; 5 March 1916 – 3 May 2004) was a Soviet judge and politician, who served as justice minister for slightly less than fourteen years from 1970 to 1984. Early life and education Terebilov was born in Petrograd on 5 March 1916. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Law in 1939. Career Terebilov worked as the head of the military collegium archives. He was also a member of the central committee of the Communist Party He also served in the Supreme Soviet as a deputy of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Just before his appointment as justice minister, he acted as one of the deputy chairmen of the Soviet supreme court In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of .... He served as justice minister from 1 September 1970 to 12 April 1984. Boris Kra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Smirnov
Lev Nikolayevich Smirnov (; June 21, 1911 – March 23, 1986) was a Soviet lawyer, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union in 1972–1984, Chairman of the Association of Soviet Lawyers, Hero of Socialist Labour. Biography Born in Saint Petersburg in the family of a physician. In 1929–1936, he studied at the Leningrad State University at the Faculty of Soviet Law and at the Nikolay Krylenko Institute of Law, as well as (since 1939) in graduate school, which he did not complete due to the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. Since 1934 – Senior Investigator of the Leningrad Regional Prosecutor's Office. In 1935–1938 – Senior Investigator of the Murmansk District Prosecutor's Office. Since 1938 – Senior Investigator of the Petrograd District of Leningrad. Since 1939 – Senior Investigator and Methodologist of the Leningrad City Prosecutor's Office. On June 23, 1941, he was drafted into the army, served as a military investigator in the prosecutor's off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gorkin
Alexander Fyodorovich Gorkin (Russian: Александр Фёдорович Горкин; September 5, 1897 – June 29, 1988) was a Soviet state and party leader, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938–1953 and 1956–1957), Hero of Socialist Labour (1967). Biography Gorkin was born into a peasant family. In 1916, he joined the Bolsheviks. In 1917, he graduated from the Tver Gymnasium. From August 1917 to June 1919, he was Secretary of the Tver City Council of Deputies, and from December 1918 to February 1919 he was Chairman of the Provincial Executive Committee. In 1919, he became a member of the Board of the Kursk Governatorial Extraordinary Commission, and the head of the Penza Governatorial Village Department and out-of-school subdivision. In 1920–1921, he did political work for the Red Army. In 1921–1933, he was an employee of the Tver Governatorial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Kyrgyz Regional Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Volin
Anatoly Antonovich Volin (July 22, 1903 – August 2007) was a Soviet statesman and lawyer who served as chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (1948–1957). Biography Born into a large family of fishermen, he was the son and ninth child of Anton Prokhorovich Volin and Irina Ivanovna (née Ganycheva). From 1920 to 1921, he worked at a fish factory in the city of Temryuk. Since 1921 – chief of the secret part of the headquarters of one of the units of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Member of the Civil War. In 1923–1926, he was a student of the workers' faculty in Krasnodar. Member of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since October 1925. Volin graduated from the Law Faculty of the Leningrad State University in 1930. In 1930–1931, he was a post–graduate student at the Communist Academy in Leningrad. In 1931–1932, he was a teacher and head of a department at Leningrad University, then in 1932, he was transferred to the Autonomous Karelian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Golyakov
Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov (July 6, 1888 (according to other sources: June 6), – March 18, 1961)Golyakov, Ivan Terentyevich / Oleg Shilokhvost // : n 35 Volumes/ Editor–In–Chief Yury Osipov – Moscow: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004–2017 was a figure in the Soviet prosecutor's office and court. Chairman of the |
Alexander Vinokurov (politician)
Alexander Nikolaevich Vinokurov (August 9, 1869 – November 9, 1944) was a Soviet statesman. Member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, All–Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (1924–1938). Biography Born into the family of a financial officer, Vinokurov was educated at the Yekaterinoslav Gymnasium, which he graduated in 1888 and entered the Medical Faculty of Imperial Moscow University, Moscow University. From 1890 he was a member of the revolutionary movement. In 1893 he was one of the founders of the Moscow, and in 1895 of the Dnipro, Yekaterinoslav Social Democratic organizations. Vinokurov became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898 and joined its Bolsheviks, Bolshevik wing in 1903. In connection with the failure of the Moscow group of Social Democrats, he was arrested, spent two years in solitary confinement, and in from 1897 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was a socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR, sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR.The Free Dictionary Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidium Of The Supreme Soviet Of The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the collective head of state of the Russian SFSR and the permanent body of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR that was accountable to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR in its activity and, within the nominal limits prescribed by the Constitution of the Russian SFSR, performed functions of the highest state power in the Russian SFSR between 1938 and 1990. It was elected by the Supreme Soviet of Russia to perform the Supreme Soviet's activities when it was not in session, which, in practice, was most of the year. History Predecessor offices The office was created as a replacement for the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets. Political significance Since the Russian SFSR enjoyed only limited autonomy within the Soviet Union until late into the perestroika period and since real executive power was in the hands of the Soviet Communist Party until 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
