Dissidents of Law by Jir Pribn - 9781138737068

Taylor & Francis

Dissidents of LawOn the 1989 Velvet Revolutions, Legitimations, Fictions of Legality and Contemporary Version of the Social Contract\nAuthor(s): Jir Pribn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138737068, 978-1138737068\nSynopsis\nThis title was first published in 2003:The problem of legitimacy and legality is one of the key issues of modern thought and nowhere more intensely debated than in the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Under the communist system, symbols of modern government had been supplemented and changed in order to serve the totalitarian domination of the Party and all spheres of life, including law, were subsumed within this framework of ideological legitimation. Following the anti-communist revolutions of 1989, former communist societies started the historically unprecedented process of transformation from the totalitarian into liberal democratic society, a transformation which has produced much so.