Reforming the Russian Legal System (Cambridge Russian Paperbacks, Series Number 11)

Smith, Gordon B.

ISBN 10: 0521450527 / ISBN 13: 9780521450522

Published by Cambridge University Press (edition ), 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reforming the Russian Legal System (Cambridge Russian Paperbacks, Series Number 11)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521450527
• ISBN 13: 9780521450522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Reforming the Russian Legal System is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the former USSR. Looking beneath the flow of day-to-day developments, the book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values, and the 74-year experience with communism and "socialist legality" are being combined with Western concepts of justice and due process to forge a new legal consciousness in Russia today. This book is addressed to students, lawyers, and business people interested in the former USSR, as well as scholars of Russian politics and law.

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Reforming the Russian legal system is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the republics of the former USSR. Looking beneath the flow of day-to-day developments, the book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values, and the seventy-four-year experience with communism and "socialist legality" are being combined with western concepts of justice and due process to forge a new legal consciousness in Russia today. Drawing on extensive research and personal experience in Russia, the author begins with a broad historical survey of pre-revolutionary and Soviet-era legal developments, which provide a backdrop to the reforms initiated by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Chapters analyzing reforms of constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, the Procuracy and the laws governing the transition to a market economy illustrate the recurring themes of the book: the interaction of crosscurrents in Russian legal culture, and variations in the pace of legal reform from republic to republic and region to region. This book is addressed to students, lawyers, and business people interested in the former USSR, as well as to scholars of Russian politics and law.