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Russia, the CIS, & Georgia: legal resources: Legal History

Subjects: Law: Foreign Law

Legal History pre 1991

Any books in the Law Library on this period share the same shelfmark as post-revolutionary Russia: namely USSR. This collection is on Level 1, one floor below the entrance level to the Law Library.

SOLO searches may also reveal useful items in the Taylor Slavonic Collection and the History Faculty Libraries.

Any books in the Law Library on this period share the same shelfmark as post-revolutionary Russia: namely USSR. This collection is on Level 1, one floor below the entrance level to the Law Library.

The achievement of codification was largely thanks to the work of Mikhail A. Balugianskii (1769–1847) and Mikhail M. Speranskii (1772–1839): a 45-volume chronological compilation of all the laws of the Russian Empire in Polnoe Sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii and  a 15-volume digest Svod Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii.

SOLO searches may also reveal useful items in the Taylor Slavonic Collection and the History Faculty Libraries.

he Law Bod has a separate collection with shelf marks beginning USSR for this period of Russian legal history. It is on Level 1.

Add the search term Soviet Union to SOLO subject searches to find other works: a considerable proportion will require a reading knowledge of Russian.

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