V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

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LENIN COLLECTION

entrusted to the Central Executive Committee, which, in addition to performing the duties stipulated by the decree of May 4, the Board of Prosecutors, is also charged with uniting and directing the activities of the Board of Prosecutors of the local Revolutionary Tribunals.

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In its activities, the [Extraordinary] Revolutionary Tribunal attached to the CEC and the institutions belonging to it shall be guided by the existing decrees and general instructions for the Revolutionary Tribunals issued by the People’s Commissar of Justice.

Approved with amendments. Lenin, 1 The draft was submitted for approval to the Council of People’s Commissars on May 22, 1918, by People’s Commissar of Justice P. I. Stuchka. This regulation, approved with amendments introduced by Lenin, was submitted by the Council of People’s Commissars on May 29, 1918, for approval by the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. The regulation was published in *Izvestia of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee* No. 117 of June 9, 1918, under the heading “Decree... on the Revolutionary Tribunal attached to the All-Russia Central Executive Committee of Soviets.”

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LETTER TO THE COMMISSARIAT OF JUSTICE 1.

To the Commissariat of Justice.

[April 15, 1918]

I request the members of the Board of Justice (preferably all six) to visit me (we shall agree on the day and hour) for a talk on the following:

1) what exactly has been done for the publication of the *Collection of Laws and Orders*.
2) — for codification.
3) — for obtaining a court that is more speedy and more ruthless towards the bourgeoisie, embezzlers, and the like.
4) — for legal propaganda among the population, among the workers and poor peasants (a) printed; (b) lectures (or courses, etc.)
5) — for drawing the poor into judicial work (jurors) and investigative work.
6) — for utilising the services of Schreider and others.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin).