Soviet legal innovation and the law of the western world

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Label

Soviet legal innovation and the law of the western world

Statement of responsibility

John Quigley

Title variation

Soviet Legal Innovation & the Law of the Western World

Creator

• Quigley, John B

Author

• Quigley, John B

Subject

• Law -- Philosophy
• Law -- Soviet Union
• Comparative law
• Law reform
• Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Influence
• Law and socialism
• International law -- Soviet Union

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

K357

LC item number

.Q54 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries