Piers Beirne

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9780873325608
• ISBN-10: 0873325605
• Artikelnr.: 41782835

Autorenporträt

Piers Beirne is Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Southern Maine. His recent work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Criminology, Contemporary Crises, Criminology, and the Law & Society Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction
Chapter 1: Perspectives on Legal Culture in Prerevolutionary Russia
Chapter 2: Toward a General Theory of Law and Marxism: E. B. Pashukanis
Chapter 3: P. I. Stuchka and Soviet Law
Chapter 4: Law and the Constitution of Soviet Society: The Case of Comrade Lenin
Chapter 5: Lenin
Crime
and Penal Politics
1917-1924
Chapter 6: In Search of Vyshinsky: The Paradox of Law and Terror
Chapter 7: Nikolai Vasil' evich Krylenko: A Reevaluation
Chapter 8: Vyshinsky
Krylenko
and Soviet Penal Politics in the 1930s
Index
About the Contributors