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Law

  1. Retrospective bibliographies
    1. Pre 1917
    2. Post 1917
  2. Current bibliographies
  3. Bibliography of bibliographies and guides
  4. Encyclopedias
  5. Academic textbooks
  6. Russian laws

1. Retrospective bibliographies:

a. Pre 1917:

Povorinskii, A.F. SISTEMATICHESKII UKAZATEL' RUSSKOI LITERATURY PO GRAZHDANSKOMU PRAVU. 2nd edn. St. Petersburg, Pravitel'stvuiushchii Senat, 1904.

Povorinskii, A.F. SISTEMATICHESKII UKAZATEL' RUSSKOI LITERATURY PO SUDOUSTROITEL'STVU I SUDOPROIZVODSTVU GRAZHDANSKOMU I UGOLOVNOMU. St. Petersburg, Pravitel'stvuiushchii Senat, 1896-1905. 2 vols.

Grabar', V.E. MATERIALY K ISTORII LITERATURY MEZHDUNARODNOGO PRAVA V ROSSII. 1647-1917. Moscow, AN SSSR, 1958.
Grabar. V.E. THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN RUSSIA 1647-1917. A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990.

b. Post 1917

Walker, G.P.M., ed. OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE, 1945-1980. A SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. London, Mansell, 1982.

Asknazii, F.M., Marshalova, N.V. SOVETSKOE UGOLOVNOE PRAVO. BIBLIOGRAFIIA. 1917-1960. Moscow, Gosiurizdat, 1961, continued by:

Gorelik, A.S. SOVETSKOE UGOLOVNOE PRAVO. BIBLIOGRAFICHESKII SPRAVOCHNIK. 1961-1980. Moscow, IUrizdat, 1983.

Dragomiretskaia, K. IA., et al. SOVETSKOE GRAZHDANSKOE PRAVO. SOVETSKOE SEMEINOE PRAVO. BIBLIOGRAFIIA. 1917-1960 GG. Moscow, Gosiurizdat, 1962.

TRUDOVOE PRAVO. BIBLIOGRAFICHESKII UKAZATEL' OTECHESTVENNOI LITERATURY ZA 1977-1982 GG. Minsk, Pravitel'stvennaia biblioteka, 1981-1983. 3 parts.

Fel'dman, D.I. MEZHDUNARODNOE PRAVO. BIBLIOGRAFIIA. 1917-1972 GG. Moscow, IUrizdat, 1976.
1973-1985 GG. Moscow, IUrizdat, 1987.

Cameron, G.D. THE SOVIET LAWYER AND HIS SYSTEM. A HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC STUDY. Ann Arbor, Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1978. (Michigan International Business Series, 14).

KONSTITUTSIIA SSSR V DEISTVII. UKAZATEL' SOVETSKOI LITERATURY. 1977-1983 GG. Moscow, INION, 1983.

Kavass, I.I. GORBACHEV'S LAW; A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF ENGLISH WRITINGS ON SOVIET LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1987-1990. Buffalo, N.Y., 1991.

2. Current bibliographies

INION Abstracts (referativnye zhurnaly)

From 1992:

OTECHESTVENNAIA LITERATURA:
GOSUDARSTVO I PRAVO
Which replaces earlier:
OBSHCHESTVENNYE NAUKI V SSSR:
GOSUDARSTVO I PRAVO;

From 1992:

ZARUBEZHNAIA LITERATURA:
GOSUDARSTVO I PRAVO
Which replaces earlier:
OBSHCHESTVENNYE NAUKI ZA RUBEZHOM:
GOSUDARSTVO I PRAVO;

INION current bibliographies

From 1992

NOVAIA LITERATURA PO SOTSIAL'NYM I GUMANITARNYM NAUKAM:
GOSUDARSTVO I PRAVO
Which replaces earlier
BIBLIOGRAFICHESKII UKAZATEL' NOVAIA SOVETSKAIA LITERATURA PO OBSHCHESTVENNYM NAUKAM:
GOSUDARSTVO I PRAVO;

and
NOVAIA INOSTRANNAIA LITERATURA PO OBSHCHESTVENNYM NAUKAM: GOSUDARSTVO I PRAVO;

ROSSIISKOE ZAKONODATEL'STVO. BIBLIOGRAFICHESKII UKAZATEL' ZAKONOV. Moscow, Izvestiia, 1994-

3. Bibliography of bibliographies and guides

Butler, W.E. RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LAW. AN ANNOTATED CATALOG OF REFERENCE WORKS, LEGISLATION, COURT REPORTS, SERIALS AND MONOGRAPHS ON RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LAW (INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL LAW). Zug, Inter Documentation Company, 1976. (Bibliotheca Slavica, 8).
Excellent guide to English-language sources, including major bibliographies, encyclopedias, casebooks, journals, legislation, dictionaries, historical works, and specialized sources.

Kavass, I.I. SOVIET LAW IN ENGLISH. RESEARCH GUIDE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. Buffalo, NY, Hein & Co., 1988.

Walker, G.P.M., ed. OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE, 1945-1980. A SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. London, Mansell, 1982.

Fitzpatrick S., Viola L., eds. A RESEARCHER'S GUIDE TO SOURCES ON SOVIET SOCIAL HISTORY IN THE 1930S. Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 1990.
Guide to laws and administrative acts, stenographic reports of Party and Soviet meetings, and legal journals of the 1920s and 1930s.

Ksenzova,T.E. IURIDICHESKAIA LITERATURA. ANNOTIROVANNYI UKAZATEL' OTECHESTVENNYKH BIBLIOGRAFICHESKIKH POSOBII, IZDANNYKH V 1831-1970 GG. Moscow, Kniga, 1972.

Antonov, V.V. SOVETSKOE ZAKONODATEL'STVO. SPRAVOCHNIK-PUTEVODITEL' PO OSNOVNYM IZDANIIAM. Moscow, Kniga, 1981.

Zaionchkovskii, P.A. SPRAVOCHNIKI PO ISTORII DOREVOLIUTSIONNOI ROSSII. Moscow, Kniga, 1971. 2nd edn., significantly revised, 1978.

4. Encyclopedias

ENTSIKLOPEDIIA GOSUDARSTVA I PRAVA. Moscow, Izd-vo Kommunisticheskoi Akademii, 1925-1927; 2nd edn., 1929-1930. 3 vols.

IURIDICHESKII SLOVAR'. Moscow, Gosiurizdat, 1953. 2nd edn. 1956. 2 vols.

IURIDICHESKII ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SLOVAR'. Moscow, Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 2nd edn. 1987; 3rd edn. 1991.

TRUDOVOE PRAVO. ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SLOVAR'. Moscow, Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1959; 4th edn. 1979.

Feldbrugge, F.J.M., G.P. van den Berg, W.B. Simons, eds. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOVIET LAW. 2nd revised edn. Boston, M. Nijhoff Publications; Hingham, MA: distributed by Kluwer Academic Publications, 1985.

5. Academic textbooks

Academic textbooks are published frequently by major academic institutions as well as by IUridicheskaia literatura. The examples listed below are published by Moscow, IUridicheskaia literatura unless otherwise indicated.

SOVETSKOE ADMINISTRATIVNOE PRAVO. 1981. 1985. 1988.

SOVETSKOE ATOMNOE PRAVO. Moscow, Nauka, 1986.

SOVETSKOE FINANSOVOE PRAVO. 1982. 1985. 1987.

SOVETSKOE GOSUDARSTVENNOE PRAVO. 1971. 1974. 1978. 1980. 1983. 1985.

SOVETSKOE GRAZHDANSKOE PRAVO. 1965. 1974. 1980. 2 vols. 1987. Also in English translation (SOVIET CIVIL LAW, M.E. Sharpe, 1988; with bilingual glossary of over 1200 legal terms).

SOVETSKOE KONSTITUTSIONNOE PRAVO. Leningrad, Universitet, 1975.

SOVETSKOE PENSIONNOE PRAVO. 1974.

SOVETSKOE PRAVO. 1969. 1975. 1980. 1986. 1987.
Vysshaia shkola, 1990.

SOVETSKOE SEMEINOE PRAVO. 1982. 1985.

SOVETSKOE TRUDOVOE PRAVO. 1970. 1976. 1980. 1982. 1985. 1987. 1988.

SOVETSKOE UGOLOVNOE PRAVO. 1973. 1981. 1983. 1988 (OBSHCHAIA CHAST' and OSOBENNAIA CHAST', the former published by Moscow Univ.)

SOVETSKOE ZEMEL'NOE PRAVO. 1977. 1981.

6. Russian laws

(selection of recent sources)

For laws see guides

Search catalogs on line under subject: Russia law statutes

KONSTITUTSII ROSSIISKOI FEDERATSII : AL'TERNATIVNYE PROEKTY. Moscow, RAU Korporatsiia, 1993. ( OBOZREVATEL'. SPETSIAL'NYI VYPUSK ; no.17-18(21-22), 1993.). In vol. 2, pp.5-52: "Deistvuiushchaia Konstitutsiia RF-Rossii".

USSR LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS SERIES. P.J. Rollings, de. Gulf Breeze, Fla., Academic International Press, 1, 1991- (announced)

Soviet Union. S"ezd Narodnykh Deputatov (1st : 1989 : Moscow, Russia). FIRST CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR. Gulf Breeze, Fla., Academic International, 1993.

Russia (Federation). ZAKONY I POSTANOVLENIIA ROSSIISKOI FEDERATSII. Moskva, Izd. "Rossiiskoi gazety", 1991-

STATUTES & DECISIONS: THE LAWS OF THE USSR AND ITS SUCCESSOR STATES. Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991-