Background for the Soviet judicial reform 1922

The article deals with the problem of revealing the factors, which cause the necessity to reform judiciary and define its content in 1922. The transition to new economic policy strongly requires the ensuring of legitimacy in civil-law relations for all categories of the population.The author comes to the conclusion that changes in the judicial sphere are not caused by the needs of new economic policy, but also by the general weakness of the judiciary.It is necessary to limit the powers of emergency justice, but also toovercome structural and organizational amorphism of the Soviet justice.