The RSFSR Criminal Code of 1926: Features of the Entry into Force, General Characteristics and Circumstances Excluding the Punishability of the Act

The peculiarities of the modern institution of circumstances excluding the criminality of the act and the practice of its application were laid down by the criminal legislation of the Soviet period. Understanding the content of the norms formed by this criminal law institution, which have passed into the past, is possible primarily on the basis of documents reflecting the course of development and adoption of relevant acts, and assessments of contemporaries.