Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis was a Soviet legal scholar, best known for his work The General Theory of Law and Marxism.
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12 Facts About Evgeny Pashukanis
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Evgeny Pashukanis was born in Staritsa, in the Tver Governorate in the Russian Empire.
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The Evgeny Pashukanis family was of Lithuanian background; he was a cousin of the publisher, Vikentiy Evgeny Pashukanis.
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Evgeny Pashukanis held a post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was an adviser to the Soviet embassy in Berlin, helping to draft the Rapallo Treaty of 1922.
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In 1924, Evgeny Pashukanis published his seminal work, The General Theory of Law and Marxism.
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From 1925 to 1927, Pyotr Stuchka, another Soviet legal scholar, and Evgeny Pashukanis compiled an Encyclopedia of State and Law and started a journal named Revolution of Law.
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Evgeny Pashukanis soon came under pressure from the government as well.
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Evgeny Pashukanis was rewarded by being made director of the Institute of Soviet Construction and Law in 1931.
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On 20 January 1937, Evgeny Pashukanis was arrested and Andrey Vyshinsky soon replaced him at the Institute of Soviet Construction and Law.
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Alfred Krishianovich Stalgevich, a longtime critic of Evgeny Pashukanis, took over his courses at the Moscow Juridical Institute.
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Evgeny Pashukanis was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957, although his theories were not adopted by mainstream Soviet jurisprudence at that time.
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Evgeny Pashukanis gained relevance in the German State derivation debate in the 1970s.
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