ABSTRACT
After the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, the Russian Communist Party did
everything it could to insure that there would be no counter-revolution and a return to
capitalism. Thereafter, for over 70 years, the Soviet authorities sought to destroy any
surviving remnants of capitalism. Through atrophy and decree, the Soviet authorities
set about ridding themselves of all capitalist era law as well as the institutional checks
and balances that are an essential supplement to the former system of capitalist law.
