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
Author(s): Pēteris Stučka; Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka; Robert Sharlet, Peter B. Maggs, Piers Beirne
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe / Routledge
Year: 1988
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
