1st Edition
Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism Law and the Failure of Revolution
By Cosmin Cercel
Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1 Law Before Communism: Modernity and the Authoritarian Drive
Chapter 2 A Criticism of the Heaven: Class Struggle and the Law in Theory and Practice
Chapter 3 Revolution Under Siege: Law, Violence and Marxist Legal Theory
Chapter 4 Revolution Betrayed: The Great Retreat and the Enduring Legal Canon
Chapter 5 The Discourse of the Master: War, Law and the Communist Takeover
Chapter 6 Law as State-Truth: the Law-Preserving Violence and the Limits of Communism
Chapter 7 Exit Communism: Legal Amnesia and the Return of the Repressed
Conclusion
Biography
Cosmin Cercel is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham
