Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice on legal thought: from its critical roots in the midst of the nineteenth century to its reactionary stand in the later years of the twentieth.
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
Cosmin Cercel is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham