Features of development of advocacy in the USSR in the conditions of establishment of single-party system

Abstract

The article analyzes the specifi cs of the functioning of the legal profession in the USSR in terms of establishing a one-party system. Clarifi ed that the party made the Directive from the state plans as well as important issues of development of economic and socio-cultural life of the community. They contain direct instructions about the tasks of representative bodies in economic construction. In some cases, the party was initiated by the Soviet authorities specifi c legal acts and very quickly able to establish control of the country. The ruling party has sought through its members who were in the public service, to conduct a personal line that zeroing the whole mechanism of government implementation of its program guidelines. Shows the decisive infl uence of the party and Soviet leadership in the provision of advocacy in the period of transformation processes in the Soviet state. The organizational and legal foundations of the formation and activities of the Soviet Bar during the formation of the Union State were in line with the ideology and revolutionary experience of the ruling party. Since the establishment of the one-party system of the Collegiums’ of defenders turned into the Board of advocates, prosecutors, and representatives of the parties in civil proceedings. Board staffed at the discretion of the Executive committees of the Soviets, and their activities were set by the public control exercised by the provincial departments of justice. The members of the Board were considered by the offi cials and was fi nanced in the amount of salary which was equivalent to the salaries of the judges of people’s courts. In this way were laid the foundations of the nationalization of the Institute for protection that existed throughout the Soviet period. In the article the essence of the decrees of the Soviet government, regulatory advocacy. It was investigated that at the stage of the establishment of Soviet power, the protection was organized on the principle of labor service. Characteristically, it involved citizens, who by his education, profession, party, or business experience were able to perform the duties of defenders in court.