Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864-1994: Power, Culture and the Limits of Legal Order

ISBN-13: 9781563248627 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 416 str.

Jr. Peter H. Solomon

Opis

Measuring Russian legal reform in relation to the rule-of-law ideal, this study also examines the legal institutions, culture and reform goals that have actually prevailed in Russia. Judgements about future prospects are measured, adding new dimensions to our understanding of the Soviet legacy.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

PeterH. Solomon