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Author: Evgeny Pashukanis

“A Survey of the Literature on the General Theory of Law and State” (1923)

Jointly Edited and Translated by Rafael Khachaturian and Igor Shoikhedbrod.   Introductory Editorial Note[1]  The article that follows offers what appears to be Pashukanis’ earliest and most sustained critical engagement with Hans Kelsen’s “pure” theory of law. There is good reason to believe that Pashukanis was reviewing Kelsen’s Das Problem der Souveränität und die Theorie

“The Bourgeois State and the Problem of Sovereignty” (1925)

Jointly Edited and Translated by Rafael Khachaturian and Igor Shoikhedbrod.    Introductory Editorial Note[1] A headline in the June 3, 1934 issue of Pravda (no. 151, p. 6) reads: “The Famous English Scholar Prof. H. Laski Came to Moscow.” A short paragraph follows: “The well-known English public figure and academic professor of political-economic sciences at

Hegel. State and Law (On the Centenary of His Death)

Jointly edited and translated by Rafael Khachaturian and Igor Shoikhedbrod Introductory Editorial Note[1] The article that follows, translated for the first time into English, was written by Evgeny Pashukanis in 1931, on the centenary of Hegel’s death. Several international congresses were held by Hegelian societies at the time to commemorate Hegel’s philosophical legacy, most of

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