<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia</h1><h2 class="">Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power</h2><h4 class="">By <strong><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/bill_bowring/" title="search for all books by Bill Bowring">Bill Bowring</a></strong></h4>
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<div class=""><div class=""><br></div><br></div><div style="display:block" id="description" class=""><div class=""><p><em>Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power </em>brings
into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia’s vividly ideological
engagement with law and rights. Drawing on 30 years of experience of
consultancy and teaching in many regions of Russia and on library
research in Russian-language texts, Bill Bowring provides unique
insights into people, events and ideas. </p>
<p>The book starts with the surprising role of the Scottish
Enlightenment in the origins of law as an academic discipline in Russia
in the eighteenth century. The Great Reforms of Tsar Aleksandr II,
abolishing serfdom in 1861 and introducing jury trial in 1864, are then
examined and debated as genuine reforms or the response to a
revolutionary situation. A new interpretation of the life and work of
the Soviet legal theorist Yevgeniy Pashukanis leads to an analysis of
the conflicted attitude of the USSR to international law and human
rights, especially the right of peoples to self-determination. The
complex history of autonomy in Tsarist and Soviet Russia is considered,
alongside the collapse of the USSR in 1991. An examination of Russia’s
plunge into the European human rights system under Yeltsin is followed
by the history of the death penalty in Russia. Finally, the secrets of
the ideology of ‘sovereignty’ in the Putin era and their impact on law
and rights are revealed. Throughout, the constant theme is the centuries
long hegemonic struggle between Westernisers and Slavophiles, against
the backdrop of the Messianism that proclaimed Russia to be the Third
Rome, was revived in the mission of Soviet Russia to change the world
and which has echoes in contemporary Eurasianism and the ideology of
sovereignty.</p><p><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415683463/">http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415683463/</a><br></p><p><br></p></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br>
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