A New Textbook

Moscow University Press has published a new textbook, Public Law of the Bourgeois Countries and of Countries Liberated from Colonial Dependence. (1) The very title of the textbook is evidence that the team of authors headed by Professor Mishin has abandoned the traditional organization of the course in public law of bourgeois countries by including among the problems studied the systems of public law of countries that upon liberation from colonial dependence took the political forms of bourgeois democracy or of established authoritarian political regimes. This grouping is entirely justified and is explained by the fact that all nonsocialist governmental systems have a number of significant common characteristics, above all the fact that they reinforce and protect the capitalist economic system and capitalist ownership of the implements and means of production.