D. I. Kursky's Contribution to the Codification of the Criminal Legislation (to the 100th Anniversary of the RSFSR Criminal Code of 1922)

Relevance. Currently, the Russian state is actively working to improve criminal legislation. In particular, in connection with the conduct of a special military operation in Ukraine, a number of amendments were adopted to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for 2022 aimed directly at protecting citizens and the state from new forms of crimes and threats to state security. The existing changes in modern legislation actualize the task of studying the domestic experience of ensuring state security and suppressing crimes that encroach on it. Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky, an outstanding Soviet lawyer, made a huge contribution to the systematization of criminal legislation and the criminal classification of crime.
The purpose of the study is to determine the role and significance of the People's Commissar of Justice D.I. Kursky in the codification of Soviet criminal law.
The objectives are aimed at considering D. I. Kursky's ideas on the formation and codification of the criminal legislation of the RSFSR, the analysis of his legislative activity in the field of criminal law regulation of public relations in the Soviet state.
Methods. To achieve this goal, the article used the universal dialectical method; general scientific methods: synthesis, analysis, deduction, induction, system-structural; private scientific method – historical; special methods: formal-legal, method of interpretation of legal norms, formal-logical.
Results. In the course of the work carried out, the characteristics of D. I. Kursky's scientific and socio-political activities are given, his contribution to the development of legal doctrine and the codification of the criminal legislation of the Soviet state is determined.
Conclusion. The lawmaking of the People's Commissar of Justice and at the same time the first Prosecutor General of the RSFSR served as the basis for the systematization of criminal law norms into a single codified normative legal act (the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1922).

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