The Law of the Soviet State
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The Law of the Soviet State is a foundational legal treatise that systematically articulated and justified the principles, structure, and practices of Soviet socialist law and state power.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Law of the Soviet State canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Law of the Soviet State Context triple: [Andrei Vyshinsky, notableWork, The Law of the Soviet State]
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A.
Memories of Lenin
Memories of Lenin is a biographical memoir by Nadezhda Krupskaya that offers a personal account of Vladimir Lenin’s life and revolutionary activities.
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B.
The Weakness of the Bolshevik
The Weakness of the Bolshevik is a Spanish drama film in which Maribel Verdú delivers a critically acclaimed performance in a dark story of obsession and moral decay.
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C.
The Appeals of Communism
The Appeals of Communism is a political science work by Gabriel A. Almond analyzing the ideological, psychological, and social factors that make communist movements attractive to their adherents.
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D.
The Khrushchevites
The Khrushchevites is a polemical work by Albanian leader Enver Hoxha that denounces Nikita Khrushchev’s policies and the Soviet Union’s post-Stalin leadership from a hardline Stalinist perspective.
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E.
Left Opposition in the Soviet Union
The Left Opposition in the Soviet Union was a faction of Bolshevik leaders, led by Leon Trotsky, that criticized the growing bureaucratization of the Soviet state and party and advocated for inner-party democracy and rapid industrialization in the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Law of the Soviet State Target entity description: The Law of the Soviet State is a foundational legal treatise that systematically articulated and justified the principles, structure, and practices of Soviet socialist law and state power.
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A.
Memories of Lenin
Memories of Lenin is a biographical memoir by Nadezhda Krupskaya that offers a personal account of Vladimir Lenin’s life and revolutionary activities.
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B.
The Weakness of the Bolshevik
The Weakness of the Bolshevik is a Spanish drama film in which Maribel Verdú delivers a critically acclaimed performance in a dark story of obsession and moral decay.
-
C.
The Appeals of Communism
The Appeals of Communism is a political science work by Gabriel A. Almond analyzing the ideological, psychological, and social factors that make communist movements attractive to their adherents.
-
D.
The Khrushchevites
The Khrushchevites is a polemical work by Albanian leader Enver Hoxha that denounces Nikita Khrushchev’s policies and the Soviet Union’s post-Stalin leadership from a hardline Stalinist perspective.
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E.
Left Opposition in the Soviet Union
The Left Opposition in the Soviet Union was a faction of Bolshevik leaders, led by Leon Trotsky, that criticized the growing bureaucratization of the Soviet state and party and advocated for inner-party democracy and rapid industrialization in the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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legal treatise ⓘ non-fiction work ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
justify Soviet socialist law
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systematize principles of Soviet state power ⓘ |
| author |
Andrei Vyshinsky
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surface form:
Andrey Vyshinsky
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| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| describes |
Soviet constitution
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Soviet courts ⓘ Soviet legal system ⓘ dictatorship of the proletariat ⓘ procuracy ⓘ relationship between law and class struggle ⓘ rights and duties of citizens in the USSR ⓘ role of the Communist Party in the state ⓘ socialist ownership ⓘ structure of the Soviet state ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
leading role of the Communist Party
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primacy of the socialist state ⓘ unity of state power ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional theory
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jurisprudence ⓘ public law ⓘ |
| genre |
legal theory
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political theory ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | Soviet official ideology ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
key formulation of Soviet legal doctrine
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reference work for socialist legal systems ⓘ |
| ideologicalBasis |
Bolshevik legal doctrine
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Marxist–Leninist theory of the state ⓘ |
| influenced | Soviet legal education ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Marxism–Leninism
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Soviet law ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ socialist legality ⓘ state power ⓘ |
| opposes | bourgeois legal concepts ⓘ |
| publicationPlace | Moscow ⓘ |
| publisher | Soviet state publishing house ⓘ |
| supports | concept of socialist legality ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
Soviet period
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surface form:
Stalin-era Soviet Union
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| usedAs | textbook in Soviet law schools ⓘ |
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