Toward the "Rule of Law" in Russia? : Political and Legal Reform in the Transition Period

The Contributors, List of Abbreviations, Preface, Introduction, Part I. Historical and Conceptual Background, The Rise and Fall of the Law-Based State in the Experience of Russian Legal Scholarship: Foreign Scholarship and Domestic Style, From Legal Nihilism to Pravovoe Gosudarstvo: Soviet Legal Development, 1917-1990, The Rule of Law and the Law-Based State with Special Reference to the Soviet Union, Part II. Pravovoe Gosudorstvo and Soviet Society, Legal Consciousness and the Pravovoe Gosudarstvo, Regional and National Variations: The Baltic Factor, The Evolution of the Soviet Constitution, The Soviet Legislature: Gorbachev's School of Democracy, Executive Power and the Concept of Pravovoe Gosudarstvo, The Law-Based State and the CPSU, Part III. The Impact of Substantive and Procedural Law on Individuals and Organizations, Domestic Law and International Law: Importing Superior Standards, The Fate of Individual Rights in the Age of Perestroika, Informal Politics and the Rule of Law, Reforming Criminal Law Under Gorbachev: Crime, Punishment, and the Rights of the Accused, The Quest for Judicial Independence: Soviet Courts in a Pravovoe Gosudarstvo, Substantive and Procedural Protection of the Rights of Economic Entities and Their Owners, Soviet Civil Law and the Emergence of a Pravovoe Gosudarstvo: Do Foreigners Figure in the Grand Scheme?, The Ideals of the Pravovoe Gosudarstvo and the Soviet Workplace: A Case Study of Layoffs, Part IV. Commentary, Soviet Legal Developments 1917-1990: A Comment, The Baltic Case and the Problem of Creating a Law-Based State, Lawmaking Under Gorbachev Judged by the Standards of a Law-Based Society, Constitutional Reform in the USSR, Implementation of International Human Rights Standards in the Lithuanian Legal System and the Problem of the Law-Based State, Rejection of Justice, What Kind of Court and Procuracy?, Enterprises on the Difficult Path to a Market Economy: Legal Aspects, Index