Socialism and Legal History : The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe (Paperback)

Introduction: Socialist interpretations of legal historyVille Erkkila PART I Framing the socialist legal historiography 1 The transformations of some classical principles in socialist Hungarian civil law: The metamorphosis of ‘bona fides’ and ‘boni mores’ in the Hungarian Civil Code of 1959Andras Foldi 2 We few, we happy few? Legal history in the GDRMartin Otto 3 Roman law studies in the USSR: An abiding debate on slaves, economy and the process of historyAnton Rudokvas and Ville Erkkila 4 Strategies of covert resistance: Teaching and studying legal history at the University of Tartu in the Soviet eraMarju Luts-Sootak 5 The Western legal tradition and Soviet Russia: The genesis of H. J. Berman’s Law and RevolutionAdolfo Giuliani PART II Legal historians of socialist regimes 6 Juliusz Bardach and the agenda of socialist history of law in PolandMarta Bucholc 7 Valdem?rs Kalni?? (1907?1981): The founder of Soviet legal history in LatviaSanita Osipova 8 Getaway into the Middle Ages?: On topics, methods and results of ‘socialist’ legal historiography at the University of JenaAdrian Schmidt-Recla and Zara Luisa Gries 9 Roman law and socialism: Life and work of a Hungarian scholar, Elemer PolayEva Jakab