Contestations over Legal Authority The Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930
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| Publication date | 2021 |
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| Book title | Revolutions in International Law |
| Book subtitle | The Legacies of 1917 |
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| Event | conference 1917: Revolution, Intervention and International Law(s) |
| Pages (from-to) | 315-338 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Publisher | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
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| Abstract | The socialist revolution in Russia introduced large-scale nationalisations and land reforms in order to empower the peasantry and the proletariat with a vision of establishing the ‘first worker’s state’. A key instrument in this undertaking was the nationalisation of private property, a transformation that was legal in nature. Indeed, as Scott Newton put it: ‘the elimination of private ownership of the means of production remains a breathtaking and unexampled demonstration of the puissance of law’. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860727.017
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