Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This suggested to most Moscowites that Yagoda may not have his confession-spouting day in court as a "Trotskyist," may simply be shot by the Ogpu. The Old Bolshevik who knows most about Soviet law is Eugene Bronislavovich Pashukanis, Vice-Commissar of Justice, Director of the Institute of Soviet Construction & Law, editor of The Soviet State, law journal, and author of the Soviet Union's chief standard works on jurisprudence used in its law schools. Suddenly last week all law books by Pashukanis had to be confiscated, Soviet law students and their professors were left stranded. Reason: Old Bolshevik...
Therefore Soviet law was conceived in the most liberal terms, with abortions for the asking, divorces obtainable by postcard, and other features much admired by Communists, Socialists and not a few Christians throughout the world...
Loyal to that kind of Red Law, Old Bolshevik Pashukanis, whose textbooks were suppressed last week, wrote with rapturous idealism that "in the full flower of Soviet progress the law will wither away. . . . Among comrades it will gradually become unnecessary. . . . Jurisprudence as the rest of the world knows it is a characteristic bourgeois creation not needed under conditions of true Communism...
This may be a beautiful concept of Soviet law but it has been found not to work by J. Stalin. He and his tigerish prosecutors want no Soviet judges trained up that way, and the Dictator is on his way to get results, even if he has to break every Old Bolshevik in the country...
...Baldwins, Blums, Hitlers, Mussolinis and Stalins. Il Duce with a characteristic gesture last week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position to estimate its exactness. Laymen and journalists noted that Italy's charges amount to saying that Socialist Premier Blum, while...