Justice in Moscow

London England: The Bodley Head. Hardback. First Edition. Slight reading marks to back D/J. Price clipped to D/J. The author spent a year studying the concepts and practice of Russian law, attending Moscow State University, and doing what few, if any, Westerners have done before: visiting daily courts of Moscow, from the lowest People's Court to the Supreme Court of the land. This account of his experience adds up to an extraordinary picture of Russian society as it is mirrored in the workings of Soviet justice. Through Mr. Feifer's eyes we observe judges, lawyers and officials as they function under Russian Communism; and also the men and women who have come to court to argue over the exact division of precious living quarters, to determine the merit of their fellow workers, to divorce each other, to defend themselves from charges of profiteering, drinking, stealing, murdering or entering into 'capitalistic conspiracies. This book is journalism at its most accurate and vivid. It is both keely informative and intensely personal,. and it provides the reader not only with a unique view of the Russian people but with a serious examination of a Communist state at a critical momen of growth and self-improvement. Above all, it illustrates Sybille Bedford's assertion that 'every nation's concept of justice to the individual is at the heart of its civilisation'. 353 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1964.