Independent judiciary system on trial
The Judiciary and the System of Political Penal Repression in Yugoslavia (1948-1959)
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political history, judiciary system, Yugoslavia, 1948-1959Abstract
In the early 1950s the leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia abandoned its heretofore rigid imitation of the Soviet model of socialism. The wave of subsequent changes also affected the judicial system and the legislation pertaining to criminal law in effect at the time, getting rid of their inbuilt Stalinist dogmatism. However, the achievement of a truly independent judicial system and respect for the law in general were still a long way off. The process of démocratisation was still impeded by the idea of the unification of power, and even more so by the political monopoly of the Communist Party, which equated itself with the state.
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