| Authors |
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| Publication date |
2021
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| Host editors |
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K. Greenman
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A. Orford
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A. Saunders
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N. Tzouvala
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| Book title |
Revolutions in International Law
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| Book subtitle |
The Legacies of 1917
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| ISBN |
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| ISBN (electronic) |
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| Event |
conference 1917: Revolution, Intervention and International Law(s)
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| Pages (from-to) |
315-338
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| Number of pages |
24
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| Publisher |
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Law (FdR) - Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
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Interfacultary Research
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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’.
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| Document type |
Conference contribution
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860727.017
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