Among the organs of people's power that emerged after Great October in the process of creating a new, Soviet state apparatus, the Petrograd Revolutionary Tribunal was formed on December 3, 1917. The old courts, which were "primarily an apparatus of oppression, an apparatus of bourgeois exploitation" 1 were scrapped by the working people. Instead, the workers began to "organize their own, workers 'and peasants', courts"2 . They were called differently: the court of public conscience, the revolutionary tribunal, and so on. They included representatives from party organizations (the Bolsheviks, and at first also the Left SRS), from the Soviets, from the factory committees. Their activities were based on the will of the revolutionary people. 3An important role in the formation of new judicial bodies was played by "Decree on the court No. 1", adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on November 22, 1917. He proclaimed democratic and direct elections of people's judges and assessors, established the principle of their turnover and the nature of cases to be considered in local courts. The decree abolished the old prosecutor's office, which was particularly hated by the working people .4 According to the decree, revolutionary tribunals were formed to fight against encroachments on the socialist revolution and conquest 1 " V. I. Lenin. PSS. Vol. 36, p. 162. 2 Ibid., p. 197. 3 "Materials of the People's Commissariat of Justice". Issue II. Moscow, 1918, pp. 34-39. 4 N. V. Krylenko. Sud i pravo v SSSR [Court and Law in the USSR], Part 1, Moscow, 1927, p. 91. page 211 workers, with looting and predation, with sabotage and various abuses. Cases were considered in the Tribunals by the presiding judge and six ordinary assessors. The instruction of the People's Commissariat of Justice, issued on December 19, 1917, clarified the working procedure of such tribunals .5One of the very first cases considered in December 1917. The Petrograd Revolutionary Tribunal 6, was the case of S ... Читать далее