Main directions of ussr prosecutor’s office activity in the period of agriculture collectivization (1927–1933)

Abstract

Main tasks and directions set for prosecution of Soviet Ukraine during the rural collectivization are defined. The priority direction was identified as protection of state economic interests and realized through administrative and court supervision. Administrative supervision stipulates monitoring on behalf of the government the compliance of all authorities, state and private organizations and individuals’ activities with appealing of violating provisions. Prosecution tasks were defined according to the seasonal peculiarities of agricultural activities. In spring prosecutors’ efforts were concentrated mostly on the preventive measures aimed at detection and elimination of obstacles for the seedtime to be successfully completed. During the collective campaign prosecutors were responsible for stimulating cropping, implement the policy of miser extermination, stimulate poor peasants to join the collective farms. Also prosecution was to enhance cooperation with local communities in order to promote the communist ideology in rural areas. Court monitoring was basically realized in form of criminal prosecution, direct monitoring in terms of investigative activities, accusation support, participation in civil process, supervision in detention centres. The Stalin ideology on class struggle was used as base for the criminal proceeding to become a part of socialism success. The main defaulters of the agricultural campaign disruption were misers. During the collectivization period prosecutors of Soviet Ukraine were substantially influenced by local authorities and regional party committees in order to incorporate basic messages of the communist ideology into new type of social-economic relationship emerging in the Soviet village.