STUDY SOVIET LAW ONLINE
Free University Moscow is announcing its Fall courses. Among those is “Soviet Law, Its Origins, and Development (1917-1948)”, taught by Anna Lukina, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. The course is going to examine the way the concepts of the law and state evolved during the first thirty years of the Soviet state, focusing on the intersections of revolution and evolution, politics and law, and terror and legality in the light of a detailed examination of primary and secondary sources. The course syllabus in English and Russian, as well as other information about the course, can be found here.
The course will be taught online in two groups – in English and Russian. Knowledge of Russian is not a prerequisite.
The course is free, but students are welcome to make a small donation to the Free University Moscow.
To apply, submit the following to info@freemoscow.university till September 14:
- Your name
- Your e-mail
- Group preference (Russian or English)
- An essay of no more than 500 words replying to a prompt ‘Soviet law: an oxymoron?’. Essays would be assessed based on the following criteria: (i) focus on the question answered; (ii) quality of argumentation; (iii) structure; and (iv) originality.
You will find out whether your application has been successful within two weeks after the application deadline.
You can find other courses that might suit your interests in the Free University Moscow course catalogue for the Fall.