Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law.
- 1st ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026. 2026.
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- The Relevance of the History of International Law for Situating Russia's War Against Ukraine -- The Book's Argument and Its Context in the Literature -- What is Imperialism and How Does it Relate to Russia? -- What is Colonialism and How Does It Relate to Russia? -- Why the History of Russian Imperialism Has Often Been Neglected in the Literature on International Law -- Focus on International Legal Discourse as a Method -- 2 The Russian Empire until the Crimean War (1853-6) -- 'Restoring' Muscovy's Patrimony -- The Great Nordic War and Petr Shafirov: Russia's First Argument in European International Law -- Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Further Annexations and the Principle of Monarchical Legitimacy in International Law -- 3 The Late Russian Empire (1856-1917) -- 1870 and the Problem of Clausula Rebus Sic Stantibus -- Martens on International Treaties -- Martens: An International Lawyer of a Semi-peripheral Empire? -- Martens as Russia's Colonialist International Lawyer -- Imperialist Practices, Protectorates, and Spheres of Interest -- Mandelstam in Paris in 1919: the Liberal Swansong of the Old Russian Empire in International Law -- 4 From Soviet Russia to the Soviet Union: The Interwar Period and the Second World War -- Taking a Distance from Tsarist Russia -- Reconciling Revolutionary Imperialism with Self-determination Claims in the Former Russian Empire -- Soviet Use of Treaties in the Space of the Empire -- Reimagining Soviet Russia's Political Relations in the East -- 1920-1 Peace Treaties at the Western Border of the Empire and Their Aftermath -- Short Life of Soviet Treaties in Former Russian Imperial Space -- Territorial Rights: Emphasizing State Continuity with Tsarist Russia. Combating Imperialism Abroad and Keeping the Empire Safe at Home -- 5 Interwar Soviet International Law Scholars and the Buildup to the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 -- Imperialism-related Themes in the Work of Evgeny Korovin -- Interlude: Taracouzio and Looking at the Soviet Practice of International Law from the US -- Evgeny Pashukanis and Empire -- The 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact as a Manifestation of Soviet Imperialism -- 6 The Cold War: Interpretations of Soviet State Identity, Federalism, and Self-Determination -- The Soviet Union's Continuity with the Russian Empire -- Soviet Federalism and the 'Sovereignty' of Soviet Republics -- Self-Determination during the Cold War: Soviet Self-Representation Abroad and at Home -- 7 The Cold War: Soviet Views on Treaties, Peaceful Coexistence, and Socialist International Law as Imperial Doctrines -- Treaty Law and Clausula Rebus Sic Stantibus -- Great Powers and Small States -- Peaceful Coexistence, Balance of Power, and Jus Ad Bellum Issues -- Socialist International Law -- Increasing Faith in International Law? -- 8 From Perestroika to Putin's Russia: Swinging Back to the Imperial Concept of International Law -- Federalist Ideas, Self-Determination, and International Law -- State Continuity or Succession? -- Clausula rebus sic stantibus -- Russia as a Great Power, Balance of Power, and the Defence of History -- 9 In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law explores the history of imperial ideas and practices in Russian and Soviet engagements with international law from the 16th century to our present time.