COURT 11 REVOLUTIONARY LEGALITY

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TELEGRAM TO THE KAZAN CHEKA
Kazan
Gubcheka
Copy to the Gubispolkom
Copy to the Gubkompart RKP
1. Sh. 1920
Sofia Mikhailovna Ivanova, widow of the chairman of the Tolstoy
society, complains that they are wronging her, setting the rabble upon her.
Investigate. Immediately stop the outrages. Inform me by telegraph [about] the execution and the name of the investigator, and the details
by post. [137]
Lenin.
ON THE TRIAL OF MINORS.
MARCH 4, 1920.
a.
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NOTES ON THE DRAFT OF A DECREE.
1) The theory of differentiation is no good.
2) Courts and prisons corrupt.
3) Who knows the psychology of children? Judges or expertise?
4) special institutions?
5) speculators and others? recidivism?
13011 o.
AMENDMENTS
TO
II.

PROJECT .
1) Instruct the NKJustice, by agreement with the NKHealth and NKEducation
and the TsSUprav, to develop forms of reporting on each case of bringing
minors] to justice and consideration] of the case about them.
2) Instruct the NKEducation and NKHealth to intensify activities in
the organization [of institutions] of medical-educational institutions]
for defective minors].