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The given article deals with the interrelation between the development of the Russian liberal legal thought in the second half of the 19th up to the early 20th century as well as the evolution of the institution of police informing (denunciation) in the Russian Empire first and then in the early Soviet state. The authors note that the liberal doctrine of the law-governed state formulated in the research works by B. N. Chicherin, P. I. Novgorodtsev, B. A. Kistyakovsky and others contradicted directly the expansion of the powers of the police and political detection that are based on undercover agents and denunciations. The authors examine the legal basis for informing from the imperial decrees of the 18th century and the activities of the third section to the Regulation "On measures to secure state order and public peace" of 1881, the Regulations on the security police depart-ments of 1906—1907 and Articles 58—12 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Re-public. The authors of the article conclude that liberal thought exerted a dual influence: on the one hand, its ideas contributed to the partial "juridification" of secret detection. On the other hand, these ideas failed to prevent denunciation to be a systemic tool for suppressing liberal and other oppositional ideas.
liberal legal thought, law-governed state, police, secure police departments, informants, denunciation
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