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Contribution of Institute of State and Law scientists to the development of Criminal Law and other branches of legal science during the Great Patriotic War
 
PIIS102694520013060-7-1
DOI10.31857/S102694520013060-7
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Vasily I. Zhukov 
Occupation: Chief researcher of the sector of Philosophy of Law, history and theory of state and law of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameGosudarstvo i pravo
EditionIssue 12
Pages16-24
Abstract

The paper is devoted to the multifaceted activities of scientists of the Institute of Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences during the Great Patriotic War. The work systematizes the material that reveals the scientific potential of legal scholars at the end of the 30s of the XX century, highlights their work on the preparation of the text of the Constitution of the USSR, the technology of work with amendments that were supposed to be introduced into the draft Basic Law. It is emphasized that in the course of this work on the preparation of the nationwide vote, the Institute accumulated creative potential, which earned a high assessment of the academic community - on January 28, 1939, for the first time in the entire period of the Soviet stage of state’s development, legal scholars were elected to the USSR Academy of Sciences. Academicians were A. Ya. Vyshinsky, director of the Institute from 1937 to 1941, I.P. Trainin, Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences - M.A. Arzhanov, S.A. Golunsky, M.S. Strogovich.

The contribution of scientists from the Institute of Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences to criminology is especially great, the development of norms of criminal law adequate to wartime, the creation of a legal basis for the classification of criminal offenses committed by the Nazis during the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War, determining the address of war criminals.

During the Great Patriotic War, groups of the most authoritative specialists in the field of criminology and Criminal Law, Private International Law, and other branches of jurisprudence emerged. Among them - I.P. Trainin, A.N. Trainin, M.S. Strogovich, and others. They and other scientists of the Institute own not only fundamental works, but also textbooks on the course of civil, criminal, and other branches of law.

In the year when the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrated its 95th anniversary of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, it seems relevant to characterize the work of the scientists of the academic Institute in the most difficult time for the country.

KeywordsInstitute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, International Law, criminology, Criminal Law, classification of war crimes, soviet prosecution
Received14.12.2020
Publication date18.12.2020
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