A Revolutionary Feeling of Justice? Emotion and Legal Judgement in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Keywords:
Early Soviet Russia, feeling of justice, Free Law Movement, late Imperial Russia, revolutionary justice, Era soviética temprana, sentimiento de justicia, movimiento de Derecho Libre, Rusia tardo-imperial, justicia revolucionariaAbstract
This article explores the intellectual history of the concept of “feeling of justice” and related concepts and the attempts to make them central to legal practice in the context of early 20th century Russia. It starts by tracing the emergence of new modes of thinking about judicial emotion in fin-de-siècle Russian Empire and accounts for both international and local influences on these ideas. It further examines the development of these theories after the 1917 Russian Revolution and notes both continuities and ruptures across this revolutionary divide. Finally, the article explores the attempts to put these radical ideas into practice by focusing on the experimental legal model of “revolutionary justice” that was employed in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1922 which highlights the discrepancies between bold utopian projects and harsh material realities of the revolutionary period.Este artículo trata sobre la historia intelectual del concepto de “sentimiento de justicia” y conceptos relacionados, y los sitúa en el centro de la práctica del derecho en el contexto de la Rusia de principios del siglo XX. Comienza situando el surgimiento de nuevas formas de pensar sobre la emoción judicial en el imperio ruso de fin de siglo, y explica las influencias nacionales e internacionales en esas ideas. Además, examina el desarrollo de dichas teorías tras la Revolución Rusa de 1917, y hace notar continuidades y rupturas a lo largo de la fractura revolucionaria. Por último, el artículo analiza los intentos de llevar esas ideas radicales a la práctica, atendiendo al modelo jurídico experimental de “justicia revolucionaria” que se utilizó en la Rusia soviética entre 1917 y 1922 y que subraya las discrepancias entre los audaces proyectos utópicos y las duras realidades materiales del período revolucionario.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1074
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