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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 October 2009
      12 December 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511521898
      9780521450522
      9780521456692
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521898
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.576kg, 326 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.438kg, 328 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Russian Paperbacks (11)
      Subjects:
      Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations
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    Series:
    Cambridge Russian Paperbacks (11)
    Subjects:
    Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations
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    Reforming the Russian Legal System is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the republics of the former USSR. Looking beneath the flow of day-to-day developments, the book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values, and the 74-year experience with communism and 'socialist legality' are being combined with Western concepts of justice and due process to forge a new legal consciousness in Russia today. The author provides a broad historical survey of pre-revolutionary and Soviet-era legal developments, which provides a backdrop to the reforms initiated by Gorbachev. Chapters analysing constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, the Procuracy, and the laws governing the transition to a market economy illustrate the recurring themes of the book: the interaction of crosscurrents in Russian legal culture, and variations in the pace of legal reform from republic to republic and region to region.

    Reviews

    "This work should be essential reading for anyone trying to deal with Russia's legal system." Peter B. Maggs, Law & History Review

    "Readers seeking an overview of the Russian leagal system will find much of interest in this book. Gordon B. Smith weaves together various literatures to create a succinct and compelling description of law and leagal culture prior to the October Revolution and during the Soviet period." Kathryn Hendley, Historian

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    • 2 - The Bolshevik experience
      pp 27-52
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