Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation
UDC 34
The article notes that during the Soviet period of development of criminal procedural law, there was no consensus in scholarly approaches regarding the implementation of the adversarial principle. The study revealed that some scholars reject its existence entirely, others limit themselves to merely identifying the existing problem, and still others consider the principle under analysis only in relation to the judicial stages of criminal proceedings. The significance of the adversarial principle in the Soviet period of state development, its content, and role cannot be studied solely at the theoretical level. Insufficient understanding of this issue often led to serious investigative and judicial errors, as well as to an accusatory bias in Soviet criminal proceedings. The author has established that, despite formal recognition, adversarial proceedings in Soviet criminal proceedings were limited and did not fully comply with the classical understanding of this principle.
evidence, preliminary investigation, equality of participants, adversarial proceedings, stages
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