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PROGRAM OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF RUSSIA

In the domain of penal justice, courts organised in this fashion have already effected a radical change in the character of punishment, realising in a large measure the conditional sentence, introducing social censure as a penal method, substituting compulsory labour while the offender remains at large for the deprivation of liberty, substituting educational establishments for prisons, and making it possible to realise as a practical measure the institution of comradely courts of law.[§74.]

The Russian Communist Party, looking forward to the further development of justice along this road, must endeavour to secure that the whole working population shall participate by turns in the discharge of judicial duties, and that the penal system shall ultimately be transformed into a system of measures of an educative character.[§75.]

EDUCATION.

In the domain of popular education the Russian Communist Party has accepted as its task the completion of the work begun by the November revolution of 1917, the transformation of the school so that from being an

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