[lg policy] Book notice: Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia

[Harold Schiffman]

Law, Rights and Ideology in RussiaLandmarks in the Destiny of a Great PowerBy
*Bill Bowring <http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/bill_bowring/>*

*Published* April 9th 2013 by Routledge – 238 pages

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*Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great
power *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.

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.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415683463/




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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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