Soviet legal innovation and the law of the western world / John Quigley.
2007
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Soviet legal innovation and the law of the western world / John Quigley.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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1 online resource (xvii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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The industrial revolution and the law
Economic needs as legal rights
Equality in the family
Children and the law
Crime without punishment
A call to "struggling people"
The withering away of law
Panic in the palace
Enter the working class
Social welfare rights
The state and the economy
Equality comes to the family
Child-bearing and rights of children
Racial equality
Crime and punishment
Equality of nations
The end of colonies
The criminality of war
Protecting sovereignty
Military intervention
Triumph of capitalist law?
The moorings of western law
The impact of change.
Economic needs as legal rights
Equality in the family
Children and the law
Crime without punishment
A call to "struggling people"
The withering away of law
Panic in the palace
Enter the working class
Social welfare rights
The state and the economy
Equality comes to the family
Child-bearing and rights of children
Racial equality
Crime and punishment
Equality of nations
The end of colonies
The criminality of war
Protecting sovereignty
Military intervention
Triumph of capitalist law?
The moorings of western law
The impact of change.
Summary
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.
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Cambridge Core.
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English
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9780511511219 ebook
9780521881746 (hardback)
9781107406254 (paperback)
9780521881746 (hardback)
9781107406254 (paperback)
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