Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin

Klappentext Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin is the first comprehensive account of Stalin's struggle to make criminal law a reliable instrument of rule. Zusammenfassung Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin! first published in 1997! is a comprehensive account of Stalin's struggle to make criminal law a reliable instrument of rule. This book appeals to anyone interested in the political! social! or legal history of the USSR! judicial reform in post-Soviet states! and law in authoritarian regimes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Jr. Solomon, Peter H. Solomon, Peter H. Jr. Solomon, Peter H. Solomon Jr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1996
• EAN: 9780521400893
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40089-3
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology