A Comrades’ court, ''russian: Товарищеский суд'' (verb. "court of comrades") was a special form of collective justice that existed in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. Comrades’ courts were elected for the term of two years by open voting of
working collective members, and were entitled to consider minor offences and to impose fines up to 50
Rbls (compared to the average monthly salary of 120 Rbls) or to pass the case for consideration to regular courts of justice. After the breakdown of the Soviet Union comrades’ courts were no longer elected and were finally abolished by adoption of
Russia's new Criminal Code in 1997.
See also
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Magistrate's court
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References
Sources
* Филиппов Е. И., Комментарий к Положению о товарищеских судах, М., 1972
* Товарищеские суды, М., 1974
Courts
Law of the Soviet Union
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