ABSTRACT
The contributors to this volume - all specialists on Soviet law and politics - offer a comprehensive examination of the effort to create a "law-based" state in the Gorbachev-era U.S.S.R., thus effecting a fundamental change in the relationship between the state and private groups and individuals. Gianmaria Ajani, Donald Barry, Harold Berman, Frances Foster-Simons, George Ginsburgs, John Hazard, Kathryn Hendley, Eugene Huskey, Dietrich Loeber, Peter Maggs, Hiroshi Oda, Nicolai Petro, Robert Sharlet, Louise Shelley, Will Simons and Peter Solomon, with commentary by Soviet scholars, discuss conceptual, historical, social, cultural, and institutional aspects of Soviet legal development, and supply detailed analysis of recent developments in the areas of civil, criminal, and labour law and the rights of individuals, economic organizations, and political and social groups.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
Historical and Conceptual Background
chapter 1|19 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Law-Based State in the Experience of Russian Legal Scholarship
chapter 3|19 pages
The Rule of Law and the Law-Based State (Rechtsstaat)
part II|1 pages
Pravovoe Gosudarstvo and Soviet Society
part III|1 pages
The Impact of Substantive and Procedural Law on Individuals and Organizations
chapter 13|22 pages
Reforming Criminal Law under Gorbachev
chapter 16|24 pages
Soviet Civil Law and the Emergence of a Pravovoe Gosudarstvo
chapter 17|22 pages
The Ideals of the Pravovoe Gosudarstvo and the Soviet Workplace
part IV|1 pages
Commentary