Law as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in a Traditional Milieu

The Case of Soviet Central Asia

Bibliographic Data

ID4888895
AuthorsGregory J Massell (corresponding author)
Year1968
Volume2
Issue2
Pages179-228
Publication date1968-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLaw & Society Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3052781
OpenAlexW2333161862
LanguageEN
Citations received39

This study is concerned with a problem central to comparative politics in a world of new nations pursuing stupendous goals: how, and to what extent, political power-and specifically, legal engineering-may be deliberately used in the revolutionary transformation of societies, especially those we generally call "traditional societies." It pursues that concern through a study of the interaction between central power and local traditions in one of the peripheral areas of the Soviet land mass, Soviet Central Asia. And it is most especially concerned with the meaning and impact of large, abstract, impersonal political blueprints of great movements and figures when pursued by ordinary men in the small, concrete, and intimate worlds of human relations, on the manipulation of which the achievement of all revolutionary goals ultimately depends

Ancient history · Central asia · Economic history · Political science · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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