Article on Bolshevik Justice:
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"But equality before the law was never even an aspiration of Soviet revolutionary jurisprudence. The Bolsheviks did not see the law as a means to adjudicate civil and business disputes, or to dispense justice blindly; they viewed it as a mechanism…
Article on Bolshevik Justice:
"But equality before the law was never even an aspiration of Soviet revolutionary jurisprudence. The Bolsheviks did not see the law as a means to adjudicate civil and business disputes, or to dispense justice blindly; they viewed it as a mechanism to implement their social and political agenda.... "In the spring of 1918, just months after seizing power, Vladimir Lenin noted in a pamphlet entitled `The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Power' that there was an urgent need to create conditions in which it will be impossible for the bourgeoisie to exist, or for a new bourgeoisie to arise.' The law, for the Bolsheviks, was the means toward that end, an instrument of persecution, not of dispensing justice...
from "The Bolsheviks and the Law: The Legacy of Arbitrary Justice," Dmitry Dubrovsky, Eurasianet, November 7, 2017.
