Procurator General of the Soviet Union
The Procurator General of the USSR was the highest functionary of the Office of the Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of the Soviet Union.
Procurator General of the Soviet Union
Alexander Sukharev (left) at the 1st convocation of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union with investigator Telman Gdlyan (right) and Mikhail Gorbachev (center)
Image: Петр Красиков
Image: RIAN archive 7781 Vyshinsky
Socialist law or Soviet law are terms used in comparative legal studies for the general type of legal system which has been used in socialist and formerly socialist states. It is based on the civil law system, with major modifications and additions from Marxist–Leninist ideology. There is controversy as to whether socialist law ever constituted a separate legal system or not. If so, prior to the end of the Cold War, socialist law would be ranked among the major legal systems of the world.
Bulletin at the Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1946). There is only one candidate on the bulletin.