1995/01/01 by Jane Burbank · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Anarchism and Radical Politics
paper · doi:10.2307/2501118
openalex publication_date 1995/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Lenin's views on law, like so many other aspects of his intellectual life, appear in scholarly and political literature primarily as weapons—a striking quotation from State and Revolution here, an insistent instruction to the commissar of justice there—arms wielded in the service of particular aims and, often, interpretations of the Soviet project. A collection of these citations would yield a most disparate arsenal—jabs, slings, barbs and bombs, and sometimes the most precise button-pressings (especially when Lenin was head of state)—an arsenal drawn, it would seem, from different wars and different epochs of combat technology. It might also seem from such a survey that, where law was concerned, Lenin's various missiles were hurled at each other.