Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism

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The Latvian-born legal theorist P.I. Stuchka (1865-1932), generally recognized as one of the principal architects of modern Soviet legal theory and the Soviet legal system itself, was a prodigious author and editor. Twenty essays by Stuchka written between 1917 and 1931 were selected for translation Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction PART I: From "Bourgeois Law" to "Revolutionary Legality" Introduction 1. A Class Court or a Democratic Court? (1917) 2. Proletarian Law (1919) 3. The Marxist Concept of Law (1922) 4. Notes on the Class Theory of Law (1922) PART II: Marxist Theory of Law Introduction 5. A Materialist or Idealist Concept of Law? (1923) 6. In Defense of the Revolutionary Marxist Concept of Class Law (1923) 7. Lenin and the Revolutionary Decree (1925) 8. Bourgeois Law (1925-27) 9. Jurisprudence (1925-27) 10. The State (1925-27) 11. Revolutionary Legality 12. Law 13. Legal Relationship 14. Legal Consciousness 15. Soviet Law PART III: Socialist Construction and Soviet Legality Introduction 16. State and Law in the Period of Socialist Construction (1927) 17. Culture and Law (1928) 18. Revolutionary Legal Perspectives (1929) 19. The Revolution and Revolutionary Legality (1930) 20. My Journey and My Mistakes (1931) Bibliography Name Index Subject Index