We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
European Human Rights as Counterrevolutionary Legality
from Part V - Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
The struggle within tsarist Russia culminating in the revolution of 1917 was a legal and political event of global significance. The establishment of the Soviet state and its deployment in service of a programme of socialist transformation represented a foundational challenge to prevailing forms of political organisation.2 Rhetorically, if not always in practice, the socialist Soviet state condemned the capitalist economic system and its political encasing, liberalism, as well as the violent imperialism which it saw as an inevitable expression of that system.3 In seeking both to consolidate and internationalise its own state form,4 through communist politics as well as through force both at home and abroad, the revolutionary state challenged liberal conceptions of civil and political freedoms and attracted condemnation in turn.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
