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

by Peter H. Solomon

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563248627
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/30/1996
Series:	Pastoral Care
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Based on a set of papers prepared for a spring 1995 conference held at Massey College, University of Toronto, reflecting collaboration and discussion among specialists in law and justice in tsarist Russia and their counterparts working on the subject in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia. Organized in sections on varieties of justice in imperial Russia, courts and Soviet power, and justice and the Russian transition, papers examine areas such as rural arson in European Russia in the late imperial era, sexual harassment claims of the 1920s, criminal justice under Stalin, and trials in modern Russia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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