The impact of the revolutionary movement on the judicial reform of Russian Tsar Alexander II
The impact of the revolutionary movement on the judicial reform of Russian Tsar Alexander II

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the impact of revolutionary movement of 1860-1881 on the judicial reform introduced by Russian Tsar Alexander II. The reform comprising the Law on Establishment of Courts, the Criminal Trial Act, the Civil Trial Act and the Law on Penalties Imposed by the Conciliation Courts,w was designed to eliminate the shortcomings of the disfunctional judicial system of the pre-reform period and allowed for the public control of the judicial decisions. By doing this, the reform opened the door to the needed changes in the Russian society that significantly lagged behind Western Europe. The measures taken against the revolutionary movement of the 1880s and the 1890s negatively affected the reform legislation and distorted many democratic institutions introduced by the judicial reform.

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