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Russian legal history
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Russian legal history is the evolution of law, legal consciousness and legal theory in Russia. Introduction Imperial Russia Imperial Russian jurists Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Ð?лекÑ?аÌ?ндр ИваÌ?нович ГеÌ?рцен) (1812 — 1870) was a major Russian political philosopher and is known as the "father of Russian socialism". Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin (БориÑ? Ð?иколаевич Чичерин) (1828 - 1904) was a Russian jurist and political philosopher, who worked out a theory that Russia needed a strong, authoritative government to persevere with liberal reforms. By the time of the Russian Revolution, Chicherin was probably the most reputed historian and philosopher in Russia. Uncle of Georgy Chicherin. Friedrich Martens (Фёдор Фёдорович МартенÑ?) (1845 - 1909), one of the so-called fathers of international law and Russia's representative to the Hague convention. , a Russian jurist and one of the founders of the Progressist Party. , professor of Jurisprudence at University of Oxford. , studied with Pavel Vinogradoff and played an active part in the organization of the Russian Constitutional Democratic Party. Elected to the Second State Duma in 1907. Following the February Revolution of 1917, Maklakov aspired to take the office of Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government. After the post went to another professional lawyer, Alexander Kerensky, Maklakov was put in charge of the government's "legal commission". He also wrote several books on the history of social thought and the Russian liberal movement. Non-Russian scholars in Imperial Russian law Soviet era Soviet jurists , among other things, drafted the Constitution of the Soviet Union. (Георгий ВаÑ?ильевич Чичерин) Non-Soviet scholars in Soviet law . Carr's writings include biographies of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1931), Karl Marx (1934), and Mikhail Bakunin (1937), as well as important studies on international relations and his History of Soviet Russia (14 vol., 1950-78). During World War II, Carr was favourably impressed with what he regarded as the extraordinary heroic performance of the Soviet people, and towards the end of 1944 Carr decided to write a complete history of the Soviet Russia from Post-Soviet Russia Post-Soviet Russian jurists Non-Russian scholars in Post-Soviet Russian law William E. Butler Richard Wortman, professor of history at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness (1976) explores the ideological and institutional dimensions of legal history prior to the Great Reforms and raises issues that remain relevant for Russia today. The book's translation into Russian in 2004 reignited interest in the Imperial era of Russian legal history. See Also
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