Beshukova Z.M. Responsibility for extremis by the Criminal Code of RFSR of 1922

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the examination of the fundamental positions of the Criminal Code of RSFSR of 1922 that establishes responsibility for actions, which in accordance with the current legislation, fell into the notion of extremism (extremist activity). Actions that qualify for the legal definition of extremism are included into various chapters and sections of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In addition to that, the majority of them is referred to as crimes against the foundations of the constitutional structure and state security, as well as against public safety and order. The author conducts a complex analysis of legal norms of the Criminal Code of RSFSR of 1922 that regulate the responsibility for state crimes. The conclusion is made that the first codified source of criminal law of RFSR In defining the criteria of criminal-legal security was guided by the priority of securing the government authority and its interests. At the same time, in the 1922 Criminal Code, state crimes did not attain the parameters of thoroughly developed and constructed with consideration of the object of a crime system of the corresponding infringements. The notion of “counterrevolutionary crime” was formulated in the Criminal Code of 1922; based on this notion, the legislators also constructed separate components of such crimes. A complex analysis of these crimes allows concluding that they contained signs of extremist activity in its modern perception.

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