Peter H Solomon

Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864-1994

Power, Culture and the Limits of Legal Order

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Produktbeschreibung

At each of its great historical junctures, Russia has undergone major legal reforms, without ever truly establishing "the rule of law". We are witnessing another such critical period now, and the endpoint is not yet clearly defined. Is Russia evolving a Western-style legal order, or should we expect to see new variations on the established pattern -- politically dominated legal system valuing outcomes over procedures, tolerating the expedient use of extralegal means of coercion, and fostering extrajudicial forms of conflict resolution? This volume measures Russian legal reform in relation to the rule-of-law ideal, but, more than that, it examines the legal institutions, culture, and reform goals that have actually prevailed in Russia. Judgments about future prospects are measured against two starting points, 1914 and 1991, adding new dimensions to our understanding of the Soviet legacy. The international group of contributors -- including Sergei Kazantsev, Girish Bhat, Cathy Frierson, Jane Burbank, Golfo Alexopoulos, Gapor Rittersporn, Yoram Gorlizki, Gordon Smith, Eugene Huskey, Robert Sharlet, and Sarah Reynolds -- bring to this endeavor a range of disciplinary methods and expertise on law and justice in tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781563248627
• ISBN-10: 156324862X
• Artikelnr.: 21231529

Autorenporträt

PeterH. Solomon

Inhaltsangabe

1: Courts and Their Reform in Russian History
2: Civil Law, Individual Rights, and Judicial Activism in Late Imperial Russia
3: The Judicial Reform of 1864 and the Procuracy in Russia
4: The Consensual Dimension of Late Imperial Russian Criminal Procedure: The Example of Trial By Jury
5: Legal Culture, Citizenship, and Peasant Jurisprudence: Perspectives from the Early Twentieth Century
6: Of Red Roosters, Revenge, and the Search for Justice: Rural Arson in European Russia in the Late Imperial Era
7: The Trials of the Proletarka : Sexual Harassment Claims in the 1920s
8: Exposing Illegality and Oneself: Complaint and Risk in Stalin's Russia
9: The Politburo, Penal Policy, and "Legal Reforms" in the 1930s
10: Extra-Judicial Repression and the Courts: Their Relationship in the 1930s
11: The Bureaucratization of Criminal Justice Under Stalin
12: Political Reform and Local Party Interventions Under Khrushchev
13: The Reform of Criminal Justice and Evolution of Judicial Dependence in Late Soviet Russia
14: Russian Judicial Reform After Communism
15: The Struggle over the Procuracy
16: Drawing Upon the Past: Jury Trials in Modern Russia