Peteris Stucka, sometimes Russified as Pyotr Stuchka (1865-1932), was a Latvian jurist and communist politician who led the pro-Bolshevik government of Latvia during the 1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence and later held senior legal office in the Soviet Union. Appointed People's Commissar for Justice in the first Bolshevik government in November 1917, he oversaw the abolition of the existing courts and their replacement with local tribunals of a judge and two assessors drawn from the soviets, and decreed that pre-revolutionary law would be applied only where it did not contradict revolutionary conscience. He later served as deputy people's commissar of justice of the Russian republic from 1919 to 1921 and as chairman of its Supreme Court from 1923 until his death in 1932, and by the early 1920s he was recognized as the leading figure of the Marxist school of jurisprudence he helped found.
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Pēteris Stučka, sometimes Russified to Pyotr Stuchka;, was a Latvian jurist and communist politician, leader of the pro-Bolshevik puppet government in Latvia during the 1918–1920 Latvian War of Independence, and later a statesman in the Soviet Union.
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