Russia in the Vision of a Constitutional Lawyer: Fragments of a Deceased State

Abstract

With the collaboration of Carmen Carrillo Franco, from the Complutense University, we have recovered an article by Professor Stephen Holmes, conveniently updated by its author, which exhibits two important inputs skillfully intertwined. The mature reflection of a constitutionalist who does not renounce to integrate in the same plane the study of the political dimension and the legal-institutional, and his overwhelming understanding of the degenerative disorder that has succeeded the deceased Soviet system, which not only does not seem superfluous in the background of a Spanish constitutionalist, but seems essential to exercise the task correctly.