Revolutionary Law and Order
Publisher: Free Press
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780743236355
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: THIS BOOK RETRACES the Russians' quest for law and order in the sense of security against crimes, and its effective enforcement, from the tsarist reforms and the first Bolshevik handbills and drumhead tribunals to the elaborate Soviet crime-fighting apparatus as it enters the computer age.1