ABSTRACT
The initial watershed for this change was of course the death of Stalin in 1953 followed by the gradual destalinization of socialist jurisprudence in general, including the revival of speculative legal thought. "The level and character of legal information" by which means that the effective functioning of law depends upon the individual citizen having knowledge and understanding of it. Socialist jurists' primary responsibility for the foreseeable future is to continue to enhance the regulatory role of law by deepening and strengthening its influence on society. As destalinization facilitated the reopening of the arenas of legal philosophical discourse in the 50s, Soviet theorists began to explore less coercive and more constructive opportunities for socialist law other than as a weapon in the class struggle. The agenda for research on the efficacy of legal regulation involves sorting out certain theoretical questions and coming to terms with basic empirical issues.
