Pēteris Stučka, sometimes Russified to Pyotr Stuchka;, was a Latvian jurist and communist politician, leader of the pro-Bolshevik puppet government in Latvia during the 1918–1920 Latvian War of Indepe

Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis was a Soviet and Lithuanian legal scholar, best known for his work The General Theory of Law and Marxism. He advocated for a philosophy of law that the Soviet authorit