Complaints to the Authorities in Russia: A Trap Between Tradition and Legal Modernization

Author: Elena Bogdanova
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032003078

Published In: January 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781138308725

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This book considers the process of legal modernization in Russia from the development of the mechanism of complaints addressed to the authorities from the pre-revolutionary period to today. It analyzes wide-ranging data and sources, collected over 17 years, such as legislation, in-depth interviews, archival materials, original texts, and examples of different methods of complaints in Soviet and contemporary Russia.

Being marginal to the legal system and almost invisible for researchers of legal development, the complaint mechanism has functioned as an extremely important way of restoring justice, available to the majority of people in Russia for centuries. It has survived several historical gaps and, in a sense, acts as a thread that stitches together different eras, coexisting with the establishment and modernization of legal institutions, compensating, accompanying, and sometimes substituting for them. The research covers a period of over 100 years, and shows how and why at major historical crossroads, Russia chooses between full-fledged legal modernization and saving the authoritarian social contract between the state and society.

This book will be especially useful to scholars researching Soviet society and Post-Soviet transformations, socio-legal studies, and liberal legal reforms, but will also appeal to those working in the broader fields of Russian politics, the history of Soviet society and justice issues more generally.

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – A Complaint to the Authorities: What It Is, and What It Can Tell Us

Chapter 3 – Development of the Soviet Mechanism of Complaints: A Request for Justice in the Context of the Socialist Project

Chapter 4 – Request for Justice through the Late Soviet Mechanism of Complaints: How and to Whom?

Chapter 5 – Post-Soviet Transformations of the Mechanism of Complaints

Chapter 6 – New Mechanism of Complaints in Action: What’s Changed?

Conclusion