Reforming the Russian Legal System

by Gordon B. Smith

Book Overview

Reforming the Russian Legal System is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the former USSR. Looking beneath the flow of day-to-day developments, the book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values, and the 74-year experience with communism and socialist legality are being combined with Western concepts of justice and due process to forge a new legal consciousness in Russia today. This book is addressed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052145669X
• ISBN13: 9780521456692
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"