Georgievskiy Eduard Viktorovich Kravtsov Roman Vladimirovich

An attempt is made to analyze the development of the institute of complicity in crime during the early years of Soviet power. It is concluded that the institute of complicity in the first theoretical developments in criminal law essentially began to form with the definition of types of accomplices, the specifics of their functions, and the establishment of the scope of their responsibility. It was found that the legal and rather uninformative consolidation of the norms on complicity in the first Soviet criminal laws did not provide researchers with many opportunities to interpret the concept of complicity, its forms and types, and specific private manifestations. It is noted that in this regard Soviet researchers were forced to turn to the rich pre-revolutionary scientific heritage in the relevant field of substantive criminal law, and nevertheless, the institute of complicity was studied, considering not only general issues of complicity but also special (private) ones. It was established that the first publications devoted to the institute of complicity in criminal law in the first two decades of Soviet power were not voluminous and appeared as separate scientific articles in legal journals, in commented scientific-practical codes, and on the pages of the first Soviet textbooks and teaching aids. The authorship of these works is attributed not only to Russian pre-revolutionary researchers but also to scientists who began their scientific activity already in Soviet Russia. A general conclusion is made that differences in methodological approaches to research, and sometimes ideological contradictions, often led to serious confrontation between representatives of various scientific trends, which did not contribute to a uniform understanding of the complex matter called the institute of complicity.

institute of complicity, A. Ya. Estrin, S. V. Poznyshev, A. A. Piontkovsky, E. Ya. Nemirovsky, A. A. Zhizhilienko, Criminal Code of the RSFSR 1922

Georgievskiy Eduard Viktorovich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0001-8811-937X, RSCI Author ID: 525295, Researcer ID: ABE-9081-2021, e-mail: georgcrime@yandex.ru

Kravtsov Roman Vladimirovich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of thе Department of Crimi nal Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0001-5597-269X, RSCI Author ID: 355169, e-mail: kravtsov.r.v@gmail.com

Georgievskiy E.V., Kravtsov R.V. Obshchie i chastnye voprosy instituta souchastiya v ugolovnom prave RSFSR v 20–30-e gody [General and specific issues of the institute of complicity in criminal law of the RSFSR in the 1920s–30s] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2025, no 4 (111), pp. 103–109. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2025.4.103 (in Russian).

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