Changes in the functions of the police / militia to assist judicial and military authorities in Russia in the first third of the xx century: historical and legal analysis

Abstract

From the end of the last century to the present days, the question of investigating the functioning of the pre-revolutionary police, the police of the Provisional Government, and the first years of the formation of the Soviet militia remains relevant. This process became urgent because of the 100th anniversary of the organization of the Soviet worker-peasant militia in 2017, and the 300-th anniversary of Russian police creation in 2018. Scientists have observed different aspects of these institutions separately. Nowadays, a number of scientists unite these three periods. It is all the more interesting to study, to what extent the experience has been rejected or borrowed, in particular legal in the organization of new structures. In this regard, in the present article the author analyzes the normative legal acts of pre-revolutionary Russia, the Provisional government and the Soviet government in terms of determining the functions of law enforcement agencies to assist the judicial and military departments. It can be seen that some of the rules of law have been preserved even in an identical formulation, but still in the Soviet period in these spheres the powers were reduced (for example, concerning notarial acts).