Peter H. Jr. Solomon, Jr. Solomon

Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin is the first comprehensive account of Stalin's struggle to make criminal law a reliable instrument of rule.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 989g
• ISBN-13: 9780521400893
• ISBN-10: 0521400899
• Artikelnr.: 29424512

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The First Phase: 1. The design of an experiment
2. Criminal justice under NEP
Part II. The Years of Collectivization: 3. Campaign justice
4. The decline of legality
Part III. The Conservative Shift: 5. The return to tradition: Vyshinsky and legal order
6. Stalin's criminal policy: from tradition to excess
7. Criminal justice and the great terror
8. The reconstruction of criminal justice
9. Preparing for war: the criminalization of labour infractions
Part IV. The Stalinist Synthesis: 10. Moulding legal officials for careers
11. The dynamics of Stalinist justice: bureaucratic and political pressures on legal officials
12. The distortion and limits of criminal policy
Conclusion.