CRMN 2031U Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Law Of The Soviet Union, Endangerment, Proletariat
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Thesis: the soviet criminal justice system is not dead! Outline: overview the post-soviet legal family, historical overview of the history of soviet law, peer into soviet practices occurring around the world today, russian courts. Post-soviet legal family: cuba, democratic people"s republic of north korea, vietnam, people"s republic of china. Pravda: first russian code of law written by the grand prince iroslav the wise. Czar: russian monarchy who pass laws through princely enactments. Marxist philosophy: the need for law will just wither away . Soviet law: law is subordinate to policy economic policy socialist. Exonomic policy communist policy: law becomes a tool used to advance the socialist state, a tool to advance communist policy, a tool to protect the proletariat from the bourgeoisie , a tool to protect the communist party. Soviet definition of crime: any socially dangerous act or omission which threatens the foundations of the soviet structure. Partial list of capital crimes in the prc: fraud, embezzlement, property theft.