Table of Contents
Introduction: Socialist interpretations of legal history
Ville Erkkilä PART I Framing the socialist legal historiography
1 The transformations of some classical principles in socialist Hungarian civil law: The metamorphosis of ‘bona fides’ and ‘boni mores’ in the Hungarian Civil Code of 1959
András Földi
2 We few, we happy few? Legal history in the GDR
Martin Otto
3 Roman law studies in the USSR: An abiding debate on slaves, economy and the process of history
Anton Rudokvas and Ville Erkkilä
4 Strategies of covert resistance: Teaching and studying legal history at the University of Tartu in the Soviet era
Marju Luts-Sootak
5 The Western legal tradition and Soviet Russia: The genesis of H. J. Berman’s Law and Revolution
Adolfo Giuliani
PART II Legal historians of socialist regimes
6 Juliusz Bardach and the agenda of socialist history of law in Poland
Marta Bucholc
7 Valdemārs Kalniņš (1907–1981): The founder of Soviet legal history in Latvia
Sanita Osipova
8 Getaway into the Middle Ages?: On topics, methods and results of ‘socialist’ legal historiography at the University of Jena
Adrian Schmidt-Recla and Zara Luisa Gries
9 Roman law and socialism: Life and work of a Hungarian scholar, Elemér Pólay
Éva Jakab