“Dissertation case” by Alexander Mikhailovich Ladyzhensky

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The article is devoted to an unusual scientific story, an episode of the scientific biography of Alexander Mikhailovich Ladyzhensky, an outstanding Soviet legal scholar, historian of state and law, legal theorist, and international scholar. He had to defend his thesis twice for the degree of Doctor of Law on the topic “The adats of the highlanders of the North Caucasus”, and both times he defended his thesis successfully. The course and results of the defense were influenced by political and ideological factors, including even Stalin’s own attitude to the topic of the dissertation. The narrative of the first (at the USSR Prosecutor’s Office Law Institute) in 1941 and the second (at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Law) in 1947 defenses is based on original archival documents studied by the author in eight archival repositories in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don, the vast majority of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.

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Konstantin P. Krakovsky

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

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Email: krakovskiy-kp@ranepa.ru

Doctor of Law, Professor at the Department of State and Legal Disciplines of the Higher School of Law of the Institute of Public Administration and Management

Russian Federation, 84, Vernadsky Ave., Moscow, 119606

References

  1. Babich I. L. A. M. Ladyzhensky – researcher of the customary law of the peoples of the North Caucasus // Ethnological review. 1995. No. 4. Pp. 152–157 (in Russ.).
  2. Grabar V. E. Materials on the history of literature of International Law in Russia (1647–1917). M., 1958. Pp. 304, 386, 412, 419, 424, 436, 439, 444 (in Russ.).
  3. Krakovsky K. P. The Thread of Time (Biographies of teachers of the Faculty of Law Warsaw-Donskoy-Rostov University). Rostov-on-Don, 2003. Pp. 196–200 (in Russ.).
  4. Ladyzhensky A. M. The Adats of the highlanders of the North Caucasus / text preparation and commentary by I. L. Babich; under the general ed. of A. S. Zainalabidov and V. V. Chernous. Rostov-on-Don, 2003 (in Russ.).
  5. Ladyzhensky A. M. The Adats of the highlanders of the North Caucasus (Theses) // Herald of the Moscow University. 1947. No. 12. Pp. 173–183 (in Russ.).

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