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dc.contributor.editorErkkilä, Ville
dc.contributor.editorHaferkamp, Hans-Peter
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-12T16:15:23Z
dc.date.available2021-02-12T16:15:23Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20210212_9781000213638_3
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46726
dc.description.abstractThis 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. Studying the socialist interpretations of legal history reveals the ways in which the 20th century legal scholars, situated between legal renewal and political guidance gave legitimacy to, struggled to come to terms with, and sketched the future of the socialist legal orders. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law and European Studies.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Research in Legal History
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regionsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issuesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAM Comparative lawen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.otherEuropean history
dc.subject.otherHistoriography
dc.subject.otherHistory of specific lands
dc.subject.otherJurisprudence and general issues
dc.subject.otherComparative law
dc.subject.otherLegal history
dc.subject.otherPolitical science and theory
dc.titleSocialism and Legal History
dc.title.alternativeThe Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780367814670
oapen.relation.isPublishedByd86614f7-ab0b-42bf-a3b7-053fda9617b2
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages204


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