Description - Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism by Frances Nethercott
In the aftermath of the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there were vigorous intellectual debates in Russia about 'the individual' - who suddenly, on both occasions, acquired new rights and obligations, and new legal and moral freedom - and about how 'the social good' and the state should be balanced in the new circumstances. This book explores these debates, focussing in particular on the work of Vladimir Solov'ev, who was a leading philosopher of law writing in the 1890s and whose ideas were revisited extensively in the 1990s. Solov'ev's views of the ideal polity - he was strongly in favour of liberal welfare state-type benefits, but was also in favour of monarchy, with a strong moral, religious character - were not carried into practice in either the 1890s or in the 1990s.
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