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Preliminary Material /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- Introduction Legal Front of the Cold War: Why? /Tatiana Iu. Borisova and William B. Simons -- Talking Across the Fence: Cold-War Academic Cooperation in the Legal Sphere /Jane Henderson -- Soviet Law and Perestroika Revisited /Albert J. Schmidt -- The New Political Polarization of the World and the Reform of State Property Management in Russia /Zlata E. Benevolenskaya -- The Relevance of the Cold War for Russian Jurisprudence: Private Law /Leena Lehtinen -- Russian International Law and Indeterminacy: Cold War and Post-Soviet Dynamics /Boris N. Mamlyuk -- Separation of Powers without Checks and Balances: The Failure of Semi-Presidentialism and the Making of the Russian Constitutional System, 1991-1993 /William Partlett -- The Impact of the Cold War on Soviet and US Law: Reconsidering the Legacy /Paul B. Stephan -- Photographs /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- List of Contributors /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- Subject-Matter Index /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- Name Index /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons.

This volume is an unabridged translation of the textbook 'Soviet Civil Law', originally published in 1983 under the auspices of the USSR Ministry of Justice. Edited by Professor O.N. Sadikov, the work includes contributions from nine Soviet legal scholars

Dimensions of popular legal culture in contemporary Europe / William L. Miller -- The quality of administrative law : an inventory of the Russian Federation and Ukraine / Oesten Baller -- Informal practice in the judiciary : a comparison of East Central Europe, South East Europe and the West Balkans / Ase B. Grodeland -- Police corruption and misconduct in Central and Eastern Europe / Leslie Holmes -- Two faces of the law : a realistic approach to the role of law in corruptive settings / Nikolay Nayden -- Corporate social responsibility and the Russian forest sector / Anna-Maija Matilainen and Minna Pappile -- Judicial review in the Russian Supreme Court and Constitutional Court : struggling for jurisdictional powers instead of protecting human rights / Kirill Koroteev -- Property rights under socialist civil law : looking back to the Twentieth Century / Murray Raff and Anna Taitslin -- The genesis of Czechoslovakism : an interdisciplinary inquiry into the influence of Rousseau's Religion Civile / Josette Baer

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Capital Punishment in Russia -- The Treatment of Anti-Constitutional Parties in Eastern Europe -- Rights, Contracts and Constitutional Courts: The Experience of Russia -- Human Rights in Russian Legal History -- The Constitutional Principles of Bona Fides and Impermissibility of the Abuse of Subjective Rights -- The Extradition of Political Offenders Between Russia and Georgia -- How Right Are Economic and Social Rights? The Interaction Between Law and Economics in Human Rights -- European Spaces: The Eastern Schengen Border and the Societies "In-Between -- Property Rights as Human Rights: A Post-Communist Paradigm? -- The Constitutional Right to a Favorable Environment and the New Law on the Protection of the Environment: Problems of Environmental Review -- On the Inequality of the Vote in the Russian Federation's State Duma Elections -- Planned Politics: The Russian Law on Political Parties -- Index.