Resumen de Das Vergessen der sozialistischen Tradition im Privatrecht: was bedeutet das? Von romanistischen Elementen im sozialistischen Recht und den sog. rein "sozialistischen" Erfindungen auf dem Gebiete des Privatrechts
Although the socialist countries existed for a relatively short period of time, their existence nonetheless gave legal scientists an opportunity to speak about the so-called "socialist legal tradition". Because today, most former socialist states are forced to get rid of their socialist heritage, this must also imply that they have to abandon the "socialist tradition" in law. But what does it mean, to forget the socialist legal tradition? Has this heritage even existed at all? The following article endeavours to address this issue. A comparative and historical analysis based on examples drawn from the civil law of the former USSR, which served as a model for its socialist counterparts, reveals the three basic processes of "forgetting the socialist legal tradition".
