Abstract
Twenty years out, the impact of the Cold War on US and Soviet, then Russian, law deserves a reappraisal. The legal changes that followed the Soviet regime collapse reflected an internal struggle for power and control over the nation's wealth. This chapter sketches the main developments in US and Soviet law through the Cold-War period, sketching Stalin and Truman's internationalism, and showing ways that they were and were not tied to the superpower competition. It emphasize the elements of continuity in Soviet and Russian legal culture in the years since World War II. After reviewing the impact of the Cold War proper on the two countries' legal systems, it looks at how both the United States and Russia responded once peace broke out. The chapter concludes with a review of Russian arguments that the Cold War has not ended and nostalgia among some Western legal scholars for the Soviet system. Keywords:Cold War; internationalism; legal systems; Russian law; Soviet Law; Stalin; Truman
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