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==Soviet legal theory== Soviet law displayed many special characteristics that derived from the socialist nature of the Soviet state and reflected [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] ideology. [[Vladimir Lenin]] accepted the Marxist conception of the law and the state as instruments of coercion in the hands of the bourgeoisie and postulated the creation of popular, informal tribunals to administer revolutionary justice. One of the main theoreticians of Soviet socialist legality and [[Proletariat|proletarian]] law in this early phase was [[Pēteris Stučka]]. Other proponents of proletarian law included [[Dmitry Kursky]] and [[Nikolai Krylenko]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Дмитриевна |first=Максимова Ольга |date=2014 |title=Роль Д. И. Курского в формировании идей советского права и в законотворчестве |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/rol-d-i-kurskogo-v-formirovanii-idey-sovetskogo-prava-i-v-zakonotvorchestve |journal=Правоведение |volume=4 |issue=315 |pages=225–236 |issn=2658-6037}}</ref> Alongside this trend was one more critical of the concept of "proletarian justice", represented by [[Evgeny Pashukanis]]. A dictatorial trend developed that advocated the use of law and legal institutions to suppress all opposition to the regime. This trend reached its zenith under [[Joseph Stalin]] with the ascendancy of [[Andrey Vyshinsky]], when the administration of justice was carried out mainly by the security police in [[NKVD troika|special tribunals]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} During the [[de-Stalinization]] of the [[Nikita Khrushchev]] era, a new trend developed, based on socialist legality, that stressed the need to protect the procedural and statutory rights of citizens, while still calling for obedience to the state. New legal codes, introduced in 1960, were part of the effort to establish legal norms in administering laws. Although socialist legality remained in force after 1960, the dictatorial and utopian trends continued to influence the legal process. Persecution of political and religious dissenters continued, but at the same time there was a tendency to [[decriminalization|decriminalize]] lesser offenses by handing them over to people's courts and administrative agencies and dealing with them by education rather than by incarceration.<ref>{{cite book |last=Elie |first=Marc |editor-last1=Kozlov |editor-first1=Denis |editor-last2=Gilburd |editor-first2=Eleonory |date=2013 |title=The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s |publisher=Toronto University Press |pages=109{{hyphen}}142 |chapter=Khrushchev's Gulag: the Soviet Penitentiary System after Stalin's death, 1953-1964 |section-url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00859338/ |access-date=October 30, 2017 |isbn=978-1442644601 |id=HAL 00859338}}</ref> By late 1986, the [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] era was stressing anew the importance of [[individual rights]] in relation to the state and criticizing those who violated [[procedural law]] in implementing Soviet justice. This signaled a resurgence of socialist legality as the dominant trend. Socialist legality itself still lacked features associated with Western jurisprudence.{{clarify|date=January 2019}}
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