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First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of eight in the Sociology of the Soviet Union series. Written in 1945, this is a a study about the social background and development of Soviet Legal theory and deals with Soviet conceptions of Law. Law in the USSR is not an isolated systems of values and norms but can be seen as an agent in social life, as it regarded as an expression of social conditions and social needs, being more sociological than legal.

This publication contains the texts of the papers presented at the UN Colloquium, together with a record of those presentations and of the discussions which took place around them.

Laski [1893-1950] intended this work to be a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917). He argues that sovereignty is best understood as a type of authority, and he supports his case with examples drawn principally from modern French history. After tracing the origins of his subject, Laski considers the significance of Bonald, Lamennais, Royer-Collard and the Syndicalist movement.