SOVIET QUASI-JUDICIAL BODIES (HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ASPECT)
The article provides a historiographical analysis of the literature describing judicial and non-judicial activity of the Soviet bodies of social control. The research material includes scientific and popular scientific publications of 1918-2000 on quasi-judicial institutions: administrative bodies exercising judiciary power, arbitral commissions and corporate social institutions. The author concludes that historical and legal studies on social control basically cover the issues according to the juridical nomenclature of specialities.