Informal practices in Russian justice: Probing the limits of post-Soviet reform

Law in Eastern Europe

Volumn 56, Issue , 2007, Pages 79-91

  Solomon, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84968662258     PISSN: 0075823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004155336.i-226.33     Document Type: Article

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39. idem, Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin, Cambridge 1996, chapter eleven.
40. For analysis of the history, content, and implementation of the Criminal Procedure Code of 2001, see Peter H. Solomon, Jr., "The Criminal Procedure Code of 2001: Will It Make Russian Justice More Fair?", in William Pridemore (ed.), Ruling Russia: Crime, Law and Justice in a Changing Society, London 2005.
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