Bringing to party responsibility in the system of political and legal relations in the USSR (1919-1952)
The article is devoted to the institution of party responsibility in the USSR in 19191952, its organization and functioning. As sources of information, the author uses published documents (regulations, memoirs of nomenclature workers), as well as a range of archive records including very significant records of the Party Control Commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b). Key characteristics of the party penalizing policy are discerned. The lack of a clear separation between control subjects of Party and Soviet rule-making authorities had determined the situation, when the institution of party responsibility became a universal tool of fight against various deviances, especially economic abuses. The author describes the procedure of bringing to party responsibility, and notes that many procedures had been borrowed from the Soviet judicial proceedings. The problem of priorities and distinctions between the party and the legal (criminal) responsibility is highlighted.