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World Service,04 Sep 1991,28 mins

Socialist Law

It's the Law

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The rule of law in the Soviet Union upheld President Gorbachev's legal constitutional position against an attempted coup last month [18-21 August 1991]. How did the socialist legal system develop out of the 1917 Russian Revolution?

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