Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Legal Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-38 : Contributions to the Legal Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-38

Name: Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Legal Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-38:Contributions to the Legal Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-38
ISBN: 9781315539362

doi:10.4324/9781315539362

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Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Legal Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-38

ABSTRACT

The essays in this volume reassess pre-revolutionary Russian legal culture, the debates of the 1920s over the role of law under socialism, and the abrupt and bloody termination of the debate which took place in the 1930s.

Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Legal Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-38

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|14 pages

Perspectives on Legal Culture in Prerevolutionary Russia

chapter 2|28 pages

Toward a General Theory of Law and Marxism: E. B. Pashukanis

chapter 3|16 pages

P. I. Stuchka and Soviet Law

chapter 4|38 pages

Law and the Constitution of Soviet Society: The Case of Comrade Lenin

chapter 5|37 pages

Lenin, Crime, and Penal Politics, 1917-1924

chapter 6|21 pages

In Search of Vyshinsky: The Paradox of Law and Terror

chapter 7|16 pages

Nikolai Vasil'evich Krylenko: A Reevaluation

chapter 8|18 pages

Vyshinsky, Krylenko, and Soviet Penal Politics in the 1930s