Party Acts` Role and Significance in the Prosecutor's Supervision Implementation in the USSR in the 1920s-1930s

Abstract

The subject of the article is the theoretical concepts of the Soviet prosecutor's office regulatory controls and the historical and legal practice of its activities. The chronological framework of the study covers the period from the restoration of the prosecutor's office in 1922 to the completion of the main stage of the prosecutor's offices system reforming, which took place in the 1930s. Attention is focused on the problems of the Soviet prosecutor's office activities regulating by party acts. On the basis of modern historical and legal concepts, published archival documents and materials of the Soviet legal periodical press and scientific literature, the author studies the mechanisms of interaction between the Russian (later – All-Union) Communist Party and the prosecutor's office. The author raises the debatable issue of recognizing the status of the Soviet law source for party acts, and gives additional justifications of their legal nature based on the sources analysis covering the prosecutor's activity. The article analyzes both the practical aspects of the Soviet prosecutor's office work, and their theoretical understanding by contemporary authors. The author substantiates the importance of party acts in consolidating the organizational foundations of the Soviet prosecutor's office and the implementation of prosecutor's supervision, summarizes the range of issues of the prosecutor's office, which were reflected in the decisions taken by the party, confirming the status of the latter as a subject of law-making activity.