Tonight! Register at: pushkinhouse.org/single-event/events/law-rights-and-ideology-in-russia-landmarks-in-the-destiny-of-a-great-power Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power Pushkin House 03/07/2013 (Wednesday) 19:30 - 21:00 5a Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2TA T: +44 (0) 20 7269 9770 Map at: pushkinhouse.org/contact Speakers: Professor Bill Bowring (Birkbeck Law School) and Dr Vladimir Pastukhov (St Antony’s College, Oxford) What was the role of the Scottish Enlightenment in the origins of law as an academic discipline in Russia? How do we really view the Great Reforms of the 1860s? How can the work of the Soviet legal theorist Yevgeny Pashukanis cast a different light on the Soviet Union’s conflicted attitude to human rights? How does the ‘sovereignty and Eurasianism’ ideology of Russia under Putin echo the Messianism of the past? Come and grapple with big ideas and the historical sweep of Russia’s view of law.
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