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Socialism and Legal History: The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

Socialism and Legal History: The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

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Series: Routledge Research in Legal History

Baltic HistoryEastern European HistoryGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0367419831
ISBN13: 9780367419837
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 30 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.

The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was a unified form of socialist legal historiography, and if so, what can be said of its common features. The individual chapters of this volume concentrate on the regimes that situate between the Russian, and later Soviet, legal culture and the area covered by the German Civil Code. Hence, the geographical focus of the book is on East Germany, Russia, the Baltic states, Poland and Hungary. The approach is transnational, focusing on the interaction and intertwinement of the then hegemonic communist ideology and the ideas of law and justice, as they appeared in the writings of legal historians of the socialist legal orders. Such an angle enables concentration on the dynamics between politics and law as well as identities and legal history.

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