Soviet Legal Innovation and the Law of the Western World

Part I. The Soviet Challenge: 1. The industrial revolution and the law; 2. Economic needs as legal rights; 3. Equality in the family; 4. Children and the law; 5. Crime without punishment; 6. A call to 'struggling people'; 7. The withering away of law; Part II. Accommodation in the West: 8. Panic in the palace; 9. Enter the working class; 10. Social welfare rights; 11. The state and the economy; 12. Equality comes to the family; 13. Child-bearing and rights of children; 14. Racial equality; 15. Crime and punishment; Part III. The Bourgeois International Order: 16. Equality of nations; 17. The end of colonies; 18. The criminality of war; 19. Protecting sovereignty; 20. Military intervention; Part IV. Law Beyond the Cold War: 21. Triumph of capitalist law?; 22. The moorings of Western law; 23. The impact of change.