Cosmin Cercel is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham

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