Prawnicy „starej nadbudowy” w „nowej bazie”, czyli o problemie kodyfikacji prawa karnego materialnego Polski Ludowej początku lat pięćdziesiątych

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of criminal law codification at the beginning of the Polish Peoples Republic. It shows that there were not many lawyers at that time who had given thought to criminal law in the context of communist law theory. It also describes, that the communist theory of criminal law was not an instrument that would allow to prepare a new “communist criminal code”, because it did not possess correct solutions for the new project. Despite this fact, for political and ideological reasons, the process of codification started in Poland at the end of 1950. The first part of the code was ready by the end of 1951, but the entire code was not completed until 1956.