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The Governing Bodies of Justice of the RSFSR During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

Student: Rybakov Vladislav

Supervisor: Oleg Budnitskii

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The object of this research is a set of normative-legal acts and documents of records management on the history of the governing bodies of justice of the RSFSR. The subject of the study is the organizational structure and mechanism of functioning of these authorities throughout the Great Patriotic War. This paper examines them in order to reveal peculiarities of the organization and work mechanism of the Russian governing bodies of justice as well as their position in the party-state apparatus in extraordinary war conditions. For this purpose I, firstly, investigate tasks, functions, structure, staffing and work organization of the People’s commissariat for justice of the RSFSR in 1941-1945. Then it is analyzed changes in the competence and structure of the regional departments of the Russian People's commissariat for justice as well as explored their staffing and organization of functioning during the war years. Finally, I scrutinize the relations between the Republican governing bodies of justice on one side and party and government authorities of different levels on the other side in this period.

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