O współpracy resortów sprawiedliwości państw socjalistycznych w latach 1958-1963 Kilka uwag w świetle wewnętrznych dokumentów Ministerstwa Sprawiedliwości PRL

• Authors: Anna Stawarska-Rippel

Title variants

EN

On the cooperation of the justice departments of socialist countries in the years 1958-1963 Some remarks in the light of internal documents of the Ministry of Justice in People’s Poland

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

In the fonds of the Ministry of Justice located in the resources of the Archives of Modern Records, materials have been compiled which concern the cooperation between the Ministry of Justice in People’s Poland and the justice departments of socialist countries. Among them, we can find reports (accounts) of trips and visits of delegations, correspondence containing information about the functioning of individual institutions of the judicature, and other files. The retained documents allow for looking into some aspects of the functioning of justice departments from the internal perspective and from the point of view of some separateness of units subor- dinated to them within ideologically and politically uniform Eastern Block. After the important visit of the Soviet justice department in Poland in 1955 and the return visit of the Polish delega- tion in the USSR in 1956, the cooperation between these departments ceased. The renewal of the contacts of the Polish justice department with the USSR in 1959 gave rise to regular visits of Polish delegation both in the USSR (1962, 1965, 1966), as well as in the countries of people’s de- mocracy (Czechoslovakia, gDR, Bulgaria, and Hungary). Obviously, the intensification of these contacts was characteristic to the changing political climate and a some uncertainty caused by, among others, the evolving practice of the judicature of the USSR, which preceded formal acts.

EN

In the fonds of the Ministry of Justice located in the resources of the Archives of Modern Records, materials have been compiled which concern the cooperation between the Ministry of Justice in People’s Poland and the justice departments of socialist countries. Among them, we can find reports (accounts) of trips and visits of delegations, correspondence containing information about the functioning of individual institutions of the judicature, and other files. The retained documents allow for looking into some aspects of the functioning of justice departments from the internal perspective and from the point of view of some separateness of units subor- dinated to them within ideologically and politically uniform Eastern Block. After the important visit of the Soviet justice department in Poland in 1955 and the return visit of the Polish delega- tion in the USSR in 1956, the cooperation between these departments ceased. The renewal of the contacts of the Polish justice department with the USSR in 1959 gave rise to regular visits of Polish delegation both in the USSR (1962, 1965, 1966), as well as in the countries of people’s de- mocracy (Czechoslovakia, gDR, Bulgaria, and Hungary). Obviously, the intensification of these contacts was characteristic to the changing political climate and a some uncertainty caused by, among others, the evolving practice of the judicature of the USSR, which preceded formal acts.

Keywords

PL

justice departments, USSR, the Polish People’s Republic, public property, peer tribunals

EN

justice departments, USSR, the Polish People’s Republic, public property, peer tribunals

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski
• Journal: Z Dziejów Prawa
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 181-196

Dates

published

2020-04-23

Contributors

author

Anna Stawarska-Rippel

• Katowice