Training of Personnel for the Judicial System of the Far East in the 1920s

The system of domestic education, including legal education, has been in a state of transformation since the early 1990s. Copying the Western structure, returning to the origins of the domestic education system of the younger generation, have not yet formed clear trajectories of further movement among the representatives of the leadership of the educational system of the Russian Federation. In our opinion, in order to understand the processes currently taking place and predict the directions of development of domestic legal education in new conditions, it is important to study the experience of the transformation of legal education during the change of the form of the state in Russia, in the conditions of radical political transformations, the construction of the Soviet legal system.

The presented article highlights the problems of the formation of the training of specialists of the judicial system of the Far East. The authors, using archival material, reveal the process of completing courses, pay attention to the academic disciplines taught, report on the problems of students’ academic performance. The results of the functioning of the course system for judges of the Far East, which operated in the 1920s, are summarized.

The authors come to the conclusion that the systemic disintegration of the structure of social and political life created by October 1917 the prerequisites for the beginning of revolutionary events and marked the transition from one paradigm to another, characterized by a change in the state structure, ideology, political, economic and social relations. The educational space, being a part of public life, is generated on the basis of a set of ideological and state attitudes, therefore it has also been involved in the transformation process. The establishment of Soviet power in the Far Eastern region contributed to the opening of prospects for the development of legal education in the period under study. Despite the Bolsheviks’ rejection of the right of the Russian Empire, a new legal concept was gradually emerging, forming and developing. On its basis, the entire system of legal training of specialists for the Soviet judicial authorities was transformed.