| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Routledge research in legal history |
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Routledge research in legal history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Ville Erkkil ĩs a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Hans-Peter Haferkamp is Full Professor of Private Law and History of German Law. He is the Director of the Institute of Modern History of Private Law, German and Rhenish Legal History, University of Cologne |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2021). |
| Subject |
Law -- Europe, Eastern -- History.
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Law -- Europe, Central -- History.
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Socialism -- Europe, Eastern -- History.
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Socialism -- Europe, Central -- History.
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HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States.
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HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
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HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics.
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Law. (OCoLC)fst00993678
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Socialism. (OCoLC)fst01123637
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Central Europe. (OCoLC)fst01244544
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Eastern Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245079
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Erkkilä, Ville, 1978- editor.
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Haferkamp, Hans-Peter, 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Socialism and legal history Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9780367414757 (DLC) 2020027216 |
| ISBN |
9780367814670 electronic book |
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0367814676 electronic book |
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9781000213683 electronic book |
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1000213684 electronic book |
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9781000213737 electronic book |
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1000213730 electronic book |
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9781000213638 electronic book |
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1000213633 electronic book |
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9780367414757 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780367814670 doi |
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