The legal and organizational basis for the activities of economic meetings and arbitration commissions in 1920 (on material of the Tambov Governorate)

We consider the legal basis of the activity of economic meetings and the arbitration commissions created with them. We identify and analyze the fundamental regulatory legal acts governing the activities of economic meetings and arbitration commissions. We drag in the archival documents that characterize the activities of the Tambov governorate economic meetings at various levels, we determine the structure, powers, and the range of issues that they considered. We note that 5 groups of questions were included in the reports of economic meetings, which we classify in a certain way. We state that economic meetings were authorized and very decisively applied administrative coercive measures, issued punitive decisions, that is, they performed quasi-judicial functions in the designated area of public relations regulation, and the system of penalties applied by economic meetings was not fixed anywhere and could, accordingly, be interpreted broadly. We emphasize that the system of coercive measures applied by economic meetings has yet to be reconstructed from archival sources. We actualize the effectiveness of the Tambov governorate economic meeting and county economic meetings based on statistical data. We point out that the economic and managerial practice of New Economic Policy has intensified such forms of quasi-judicial agencies activity that, despite the soon extrusion of market elements from the economy, have evolved, passed through the Soviet model of statehood and government and were the forerunner of modern arbitration courts.