Complaints to the authorities in Russia a trap between tradition and legal modernization / Elena Bogdanova.
| Author/creator | Bogdanova, Elena, 1978- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
| Description | x, 240 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in contemporary Russia |
| Contents | Introduction -- A complaint to the authorities : what it is, and what it can tell us -- Development of the Soviet mechanism of complaints : a request for justice in the context of the socialist project -- Request for justice through the late Soviet mechanism of complaints : how and to whom? -- Post-Soviet transformations of the mechanism of complaints -- New mechanism of complaints in action : what's changed? |
| Abstract | "This book considers the process of legal modernization in Russia from the perspective of the development of the mechanism of complaints addressed to the authorities from the pre-revolutionary period to today. It analyses wide-ranging data and sources, collected over 17 years, such as legislation, in-depth interviews, archival materials, original texts, and examples of different methods of complaints in the Soviet and contemporary Russia. Being marginal to the legal system and almost invisible for researchers of legal development, the complaint mechanism has functioned as an extremely important way of restoring justice, available to the majority of people in Russia through centuries. It has survived several historical gaps and, in a sense, acts as a thread that stitches different eras, coexisting with the establishment and modernization of legal institutions, compensating, accompanying, and sometimes substituting for them. The research covers a period of over 100 years, and shows, how and why at major historical crossroads, Russia chooses between full-fledged legal modernization and saving of the authoritarian social contract between the state and society"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020055897 |
| ISBN | 9781138308725 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032003078 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |