STRUCTURI ŞI CATEGORII SOCIALE ÎN VIZIUNEA ŞI ACŢIUNEA „JUSTIŢIEI POPULARE” DIN ROMÂNIA (1948–1962)
Structures and Social Groups through the Lens of “Popular Justice” in Romania (1948-1962)

Summary/Abstract: Besides changing the judicial organization and introduction of popular judges and people’s tribunals, the administration of „popular justice” in Romania had much more consequences at both legal and social level. First of all, the constitutional framework was developed which meant consolidation of democrat-popular power (Constitutions of 1948 and 1952). Second, the legal framework has been enlarged by the land legislation that was at the basis of nationalization and collectivization. For the purpose of liquidating private property of land, class enemy, peasantry resistance to collectivization, in the hands of popular justice has been the repressive tool of special legislation concerning the economic sabotage, the failure to accomplish the state plan or the collecting plan. The verdicts were aberant in form and excesive in severity: people who commented in a hostile way upon the achievements of the government were sent to working camps; the peasants who wanted to withdraw from the collective farms or those who advised the others to do such a thing were sent to prison (according to article no. 209 from the Criminal Code).

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