Soviet legal innovations and the law of the western world
By: John Quigley.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521881746
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy; Law -- Soviet Union; Law and socialism; Law reform; Comparative law; International law -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Influence
Description: This book explains an interaction between Soviet Russia and the West that has been overlooked in much of the analysis of the demise of the USSR. Legislation strikingly similar to the Marxist-inspired laws of Soviet Russia found its way into the legal systems of the Western world. Even though Western governments were at odds with the Soviet government, they were affected by the ideas it put forth. Western law was transformed radically during the course of the twentieth century, and much of that change was along lines first charted in Soviet law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The industrial revolution and the law; title: Economic needs as legal rights; title: Equality in the family; title: Children and the law; title: Crime without punishment; title: A call to "struggling people"; title: The withering away of law; title: Panic in the palace; title: Enter the working class; title: Social welfare rights; title: The state and the economy; title: Equality comes to the family; title: Child-bearing and rights of children; title: Racial equality; title: Crime and punishment; title: Equality of nations; title: The end of colonies; title: The criminality of war; title: Protecting sovereignty; title: Military intervention; title: Triumph of capitalist law?; title: The moorings of western law; title: The impact of change.