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Chapter 24: The First World War

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In what ways was the murder of the Russian royal family the by-product of total ware rather than the result of any revolutionary ideals?

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Were the Bolsheviks correct in arguing that "justice" is never blind, that legal systems always reflect the interests of a society's dominant groups? Is there such a thing as impartial justice?

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In what ways did the Bolshevik refusal to accept bourgeois principles of justice mean that the newly established Soviet Union placed itself outside the boundaries of the West?

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Compare and contrast attitudes toward the law and "revolutionary justice" in the "nontrial" of Tsar Nicholas with those revealed in the trials of Charles I in seventeenth-century England and Louis XVI in eighteenth-century France. (See "Justice in History" in Chapters 15 and 19.) What factors explain the differences?

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