ABSTRACT
The legal system of Soviet Russia is still a tradition in the making. The State has been based upon new legal postulates, which correspond, in the purpose they seek to fulfil, with a change in class-relations hitherto unknown in its intensity to the human race. The judicial system in the constituent republics of the USSR. is usually a three-or-four-tier-system. At the base are the People's Courts, with a jurisdiction both civil and criminal, which is broadly similar to that of the county and police courts in England. Soviet judges are of two kinds, the professional judge and the lay judge. The former, as in France and most Continental countries, is a professional civil servant. The Soviet treatment of crime is well known in this country, since there is no realm of administration in which their achievement has been so dramatic.
