Socialism and legal history : : the histories and historians of law in socialist East Central Europe / / by Ville Erkkila and Hans-Peter Haferkamp.

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 co...

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Superior document:Routledge research in legal history
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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Routledge research in legal history.
Physical Description:1 online resource (199 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • The transformations of some classical principles in socialist Hungarian civil law : the metamorphosis of 'bona fides' and 'boni mores' in the Hungarian Civil Code of 1959 / András Földi
  • We few, we happy few? Legal history in the GDR / Martin Otto
  • Roman law studies in the USSR : an abiding debate on slaves, economy and the process of history / Anton Rudokvas and Ville Erkkilä
  • Strategies of covert resistance : teaching and studying legal history at the University of Tartu in the Soviet era / Marju Luts-Sootak
  • The Western legal tradition and Soviet Russia : the genesis of H. J. Berman's Law and Revolution / Adolfo Giuliani
  • Juliusz Bardach and the agenda of socialist history of law in Poland / Marta Bucholc
  • Valdemārs Kalniņš (1907-1981) : the founder of Soviet legal history in Latvia / Sanita Osipova
  • Getaway into the Middle Ages? : on topics, methods and results of 'socialist' legal historiography at the University of Jena / Adrian Schmidt-Recla and Zara Luisa Gries
  • Roman law and socialism : life and work of a Hungarian scholar, Elemér Pólay / Éva Jakab.