ABSTRACT
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis was at center stage in the development of Marxist law during the highly creative and challenging historical period of 1917-1937 in Russia. Pashukanis's direct involvement in shaping the legal culture of post-revolutionary Russia, particularly from the 1920s through the mid-1930s, was extensive and had a significant impact. Stuchka's Section of Law and State and the Institute of Soviet Construction, as well as his tenure as head of the Subsection of the Institute of Soviet Construction on the General Theory of Law and State. From 1927 to the early 1930s, the exchange between Stuchka and Pashukanis was to persuade the latter that some of his early statements made in The General Theory of Law and Marxism should be qualified to include class dimensions in the overall analysis. Pashukanis's theory of commodity-exchange and the development of equivalent exchange (capital logic) find their expression in notions of morality, crime, and punishment.
