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- Title
Soviet Property Law and Social Change.
- Authors
Hazard, John N.
- Abstract
This article discusses Soviet property law and its relationship to social change. The law of property is appropriate for examination for two reasons. Soviet jurists consider it the subject of primary importance in moulding a new social structure. The starting point for any consideration of Soviet property law must be Marxist doctrine, for it is in that doctrine that Soviet leaders say they find the inspiration for their policies. It is common knowledge that the Communist Manifesto focused attention upon property relationships as reflecting historical conditions and influencing future change. To the legal historian and the comparative lawyer, the steps Soviet leaders have taken in the realm of property law are not entirely unfamiliar. On many occasions in the past property law has been manipulated to achieve political effects desired by a regime. In many countries of the old world, and even in the new, a new regime has punished its enemies and rewarded its friends by appropriate changes in the law of property. The development of interest in the sphere of Soviet property law has been the careful distinction that has been drawn between types of property.
- Subjects
GERMANY; PROPERTY; LAW; POSSESSION (Law); SOCIAL change
- Publication
British Journal of Sociology, 1953, Vol 4, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0007-1315
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/587162