Law and Socialism -- Sociological jurisprudence

Indeks : p. 263-271 ; p. 253-261 ; Interest in the best-known Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis, today remains widespread. But how and why did Pashukanis emerge as the pre-eminent Soviet jurist from 1924 to 1930, come under only minor critism from 1930 to 1936, and then be denounced and executed in 1937 as a 'Trotskyite saboteur'? And why have many Western scholars generally praised the quality and originality of 'Pashukanis' work, yet also drawn the conclusion that his fate illustrates the intrinsic impossibility of the entire communist project? Answering these questions throught examination of pashukanis relationship to the Stanilist regime, Head shows how Pashukanis writings provide a rich source of material on the Marxist theory of law and the state, as well as attempts to aplly that theory in Soviet Russia.