Peter H. Jr. Solomon, Jr. Peter H. Solomon

Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin is the first comprehensive account in any language of Stalin's struggle to make criminal law in the USSR a reliable instrument of rule. Using declassified archives, the book reveals the story of nonpolitical justice, on the local scene as well as in the center. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Peter Solomon emphasizes the initial weakness of the Soviet state and the limits of the dictators' capacity to rule.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9780521564519
• ISBN-10: 0521564514
• Artikelnr.: 22081870

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The First Phase: 1. The design of an experiment
2. Criminal justice under NEP
Part II. The Years of Collectivization: 3. Campaign justice
4. The decline of legality
Part III. The Conservative Shift: 5. The return to tradition: Vyshinsky and legal order
6. Stalin's criminal policy: from tradition to excess
7. Criminal justice and the great terror
8. The reconstruction of criminal justice
9. Preparing for war: the criminalization of labour infractions
Part IV. The Stalinist Synthesis: 10. Moulding legal officials for careers
11. The dynamics of Stalinist justice: bureaucratic and political pressures on legal officials
12. The distortion and limits of criminal policy
Conclusion.