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Soviet Legal Innovation and the Law of the Western World

Soviet Legal Innovation and the Law of the Western World

Name: Soviet Legal Innovation and the Law of the Western World
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107406254
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Author: John Quigley
ISBN: 9781107406254

By John Quigley

Cambridge University Press August 2012

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ISBN-13: 9781107406254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: August 2012
Format: Paperback , 276 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book was first published in 2007. The government of Soviet Russia wrote new laws for Russia that were as revolutionary as its political philosophy. These new laws challenged social relations as they had developed in Europe over centuries. These laws generated intense interest in the West. To some, they were the harbinger of what should be done in the West, hence a source for emulation. To others, they represented a threat to the existing order. Western governments, like that of the Tsar, might be at risk if they held to the old ways. Throughout the twentieth century Western governments remade their legal systems, incorporating an astonishing number of laws that mirrored the new Soviet laws. Western law became radically transformed over the course of the twentieth century, largely in the direction of change that had been charted by the government of Soviet Russia.

PART ONE. THE SOVIET CHALLENGE
1	The Industrial Revolution and the Law	3
2	Economic Needs as Legal Rights	9
3	Equality in the Family	17
4	Children and the Law	27
5	Crime without Punishment	34
6	A Call to “Struggling People”	47
7	The Withering Away of Law	53
PART TWO. THE WEST ACCOMMODATES
8	Panic in the Palace	65
9	Enter the Working Class	74
10	Social Welfare Rights	87
11	The State and the Economy	95
12	Equality Comes to the Family	103
13	Child-Bearing and Rights of Children	108
14	Racial Equality	115
15	Crime and Punishment	125
PART THREE. THE BOURGEOIS INTERNATIONAL ORDER
16	Equality of Nations	133
17	The End of Colonies	143
18	The Criminality of War	148
19	Protecting Sovereignty	158
20	Military Intervention	165
PART FOUR. LAW BEYOND THE COLD WAR
21	Triumph of Capitalist Law?	175
22	The Moorings of Western Law	180
23	The Impact of Change	188
Notes		195
Bibliography		239
Index		25