Item #P6319 Edinnyi kodeks voennoi iustitsii Soedinennykh Shtatov Ameriki, s kommentariiami [Uniform Code of Military Justice of the United States of America, with commentary]. E. P. Pudov.

Pudov, E. P. translator.

Edinnyi kodeks voennoi iustitsii Soedinennykh Shtatov Ameriki, s kommentariiami [Uniform Code of Military Justice of the United States of America, with commentary].

Moscow: [Voenno-iuridicheskaia akademiia], 1954. Quarto (30.5 × 22 cm). Bound in maroon buckram folder; 150 leaves of carbon copy typescript to rectos only. Owner stamp of a Potsdam “projection bureau” to wrapper. Very good. Item #P6319

A Cold-War-era Russian translation of the commentary to the body of laws governing the United States Armed Forces in 1951–1952. Each legal article is accompanied with commentary in simplified language accessible to non-legal specialists. According to the introduction, the publication contains the most essential articles that must be explained to every conscript by their commanding officers. “The objective of the present publication is to help instructors (US commanding officers) who are charged with explaining these articles. Each of the articles is appended with an explanatory note that aids in understanding the essence of the article.” Judging by the stamp of a Potsdam office on the inside front wrapper, the publication was likely part of a Soviet military library in Potsdam, which had one of the highest concentrations of Soviet military personnel in East Germany. The Code was translated in Moscow in 1954, at the Soviet Military Law Academy (1939–1956), an institution that would later become part of the Soviet defense ministry.

As of April 2024, not found in KVK or OCLC.