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Корни российского Правосудия. О книге В. И. Полуднякова «Суд продолжает прием» (Л.: Лениздат, 1987. — 224 с.)
The review highlights the book Sud prodolzhayet priyom (The Court of Law Continues to Receive People) by V.I. Poludnyakov, published in Leningrad in 1987. The book gives a first-person account of a single working day of a Soviet judge, describing in detail his daily routine, and provides extensive explanations for non-lawyers. The author of the book is a prominent Soviet lawyer commanding great respect in the professional community, who headed the Leningrad City Court from 1981 until 2003. The review is structured as a small historical and sociological case study, an analysis of a single source. It analyzes how prosecutors and lawyers, parties to a trial, the aggrieved and the accused and, certainly, judges themselves are represented. The focus is on the description of the daily practices that play a major part in the contemporary Russian judiciary system, as the practices that have been preserved since Soviet times.