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On the Origins of International Legal Education in the Soviet Union: the Kravchenko Syllabus

On the Origins of International Legal Education in the Soviet Union: the Kravchenko Syllabus ON THE ORIGINS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET UNION: THE KRAVCHENKO SYLLABUS by W. E. BUTLER (London) The origins of public international law as a branch of learning in the Soviet Union are still regrettably obscure. Accounts of higher education in the im- mediate aftermath of the October 1917 Revolution suggest that the general situation was extremely chaotic. The first educational reform instituted by the new revolutionary government was to make university learning accessible to all, irrespective of their social status'. University courses, including interna- tional law, continued to be taught throughout 1918 essentially as they had been before the Revolution. The Moscow law faculty reportedly was closed at the end of 19182. In many places "Workers' Faculties" (rabfak) were formed dur- ing 1919-20 to provide a secondary educational teaching on a Marxist basis for students of proletarian background who aspired to enter university 3. In March 1919 university law faculties in the RSFSR were abolished and replaced by faculties of social sciences (FON) offering lectures in law, history, and in some instances, international law4. Even instruction in Soviet law was no easy matter. "Positive law," one jurist wrote, "was in an episodic state", and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Legal History Review / Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit Brill

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© 1975 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0040-7585
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1571-8190
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10.1163/157181975X00088
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ON THE ORIGINS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET UNION: THE KRAVCHENKO SYLLABUS by W. E. BUTLER (London) The origins of public international law as a branch of learning in the Soviet Union are still regrettably obscure. Accounts of higher education in the im- mediate aftermath of the October 1917 Revolution suggest that the general situation was extremely chaotic. The first educational reform instituted by the new revolutionary government was to make university learning accessible to all, irrespective of their social status'. University courses, including interna- tional law, continued to be taught throughout 1918 essentially as they had been before the Revolution. The Moscow law faculty reportedly was closed at the end of 19182. In many places "Workers' Faculties" (rabfak) were formed dur- ing 1919-20 to provide a secondary educational teaching on a Marxist basis for students of proletarian background who aspired to enter university 3. In March 1919 university law faculties in the RSFSR were abolished and replaced by faculties of social sciences (FON) offering lectures in law, history, and in some instances, international law4. Even instruction in Soviet law was no easy matter. "Positive law," one jurist wrote, "was in an episodic state", and the

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The Legal History Review / Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1975

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