Settling Disputes in Soviet Society: The Formative Years of Legal Institutions

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• Title Page iii
• The Russian Institute of Columbia University v
• Studies of the Russian Institute vi
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• Chapter 1 - Making a Beginning 1
• Chapter 2 - Striving for Simplicity 34
• Chapter 3 - Steps toward Centralization 64
• Chapter 4 - Seeking the Best of Both Worlds 94
• Chapter 5 - Reconstruction 128
• Chapter 6 - Crystallization of the Court Structure 176
• Chapter 7 - The Watchman 217
• Chapter 8 - Professionalizing the Bar 247
• Chapter 9 - Procedure to the Fore 301
• Chapter 10 - A Second Step in Procedural Reform 342
• Chapter 11 - Civil Procedure Caps the Climax 396

• Title Page iii
• The Russian Institute of Columbia University v
• Studies of the Russian Institute vi
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• Chapter 1 - Making a Beginning 1
• Chapter 2 - Striving for Simplicity 34
• Chapter 3 - Steps toward Centralization 64
• Chapter 4 - Seeking the Best of Both Worlds 94
• Chapter 5 - Reconstruction 128
• Chapter 6 - Crystallization of the Court Structure 176
• Chapter 7 - The Watchman 217
• Chapter 8 - Professionalizing the Bar 247
• Chapter 9 - Procedure to the Fore 301
• Chapter 10 - A Second Step in Procedural Reform 342
• Chapter 11 - Civil Procedure Caps the Climax 396
• Chapter 12 - Refining Procedure in Practice 436
• Chapter 13 - From Simplicity to Complexity and Formality 477
• Bibliography 492
• Table of Statutes and Orders 509
• Table of Cases 517
• Index 519