Soviet Legal Innovation and the Law of the Western World [Paperback]

This book looks at the Soviet style of law that was adopted slowly in the West during the twentieth century.This book explains the Marxist-inspired legislation that was adopted in Soviet Russia and shows how much of this legislation was later incorporated into the legal systems of the Western world. The book shows that Soviet laws exerted a strong impact on the direction of law in the West.This book explains the Marxist-inspired legislation that was adopted in Soviet Russia and shows how much of this legislation was later incorporated into the legal systems of the Western world. The book shows that Soviet laws exerted a strong impact on the direction of law in the West.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.Part I. The Soviet Challenge: 1. The industrial revolution and the law; 2. Economic needs as legal rights; 3. Equality in the family; 4. Children and the law; 5. Crime without punishment; 6. A call to 'struggling people'; 7. The withering away of law; Part II. Accommodation in the West: 8. Panic in the palace; 9. Enter the working class; 10. Social welfare rights; 11. The state and the economy; 12. Equality comes to the family; 13. Child-bearing and rights of children; 14. Racial equality; 15. Crime and punishment; Part III. The Bourgeois International Order: 16. Equality of nations; 17. The end of colonies; 18. The criminality of war; 19. Protecting sovereignty; 20. Military intervention; Part IV. Law beyond the Cold War: 21. Triumph of capitalist law?; 22. ThlS!