Supreme Court of the Soviet Union

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court of last resort judicial body supreme court

The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union was the highest judicial authority in the USSR, overseeing the application of Soviet law and supervising lower courts across the union republics.

Aliases (6)

Supreme Court of the USSR ×5
Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union ×1
Soviet judiciary ×1
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ×1
Verkhovny Sud SSSR ×1
Verkhovny Sud Sovetskogo Soyuza ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	court of last resort → judicial body → supreme court →
alsoKnownAs	Verkhovny Sud SSSR → Verkhovny Sud Sovetskogo Soyuza →
appliesLaw	Soviet law → USSR Constitution → all-union legislation →
capitalOfJurisdiction	Moscow →
country	Soviet Union →
decidesOn	administrative cases → civil cases → criminal cases →
dissolved	1991 →
established	1923 →
establishedBy	Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 →
governs	judicial practice in the USSR →
hasFunction	analysis of judicial practice → cassation review → consideration of especially important criminal and civil cases → ensuring uniform application of Soviet law → interpretation of all-union legislation → issuance of guiding explanations for courts → judicial review of cases from lower courts → supervisory review →
hasPart	Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union → Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union → judicial collegium for civil cases → judicial collegium for criminal cases → military collegium →
jurisdiction	Soviet Union → USSR →
languageOfWork	Russian →
legalSystem	Soviet legal system → socialist law →
locatedIn	Moscow →
nativeNameLanguage	Russian →
oversees	military courts of the Soviet Union → specialized courts of the Soviet Union → supreme courts of the union republics →
partOf	judicial system of the Soviet Union →
replacedBy	Supreme Court of the Russian Federation →
reportsTo	Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →
role	highest judicial authority in the Soviet Union → oversight of application of Soviet law → supervision of lower courts of the union republics →
subordinateTo	Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →
supervises	application of Soviet law throughout the USSR →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union ("Verkhovny Sud SSSR") → Supreme Court of the Soviet Union ("Verkhovny Sud Sovetskogo Soyuza") →	alsoKnownAs
Soviet Union → Soviet government ("Supreme Court of the USSR") →	judicialBody
glasnost policy ("Soviet judiciary") →	appliesTo
Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 ("Supreme Court of the USSR") →	definesJudicialBody
Constitutional Oversight Committee of the USSR ("Supreme Court of the USSR") →	distinctFrom
Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 ("Supreme Court of the USSR") →	establishesInstitution
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union ("Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union") →	hasPart
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR ("Supreme Court of the USSR") →	partOf
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union ("Supreme Court of the Russian Federation") →	replacedBy