Abstract
Abstract: Russian revolution of 1917 was an event influencing for seventy years almost one fourth of mankind, including Far Eastern countries. Its Marxist-Leninist ideology was a guiding principle of Soviet law introduced step by step in all countries which adopted the so-called "way to socialism".
The first country of the Far East which did so was Mongolia in 1924. In 1930's, the Chinese communists introduced soviet principles in north Chinese "Liberated areas".
After World War II, soviet law was implemented to North Korea and North Vietnam. The People's Republic of China was a peculiar case.
They invented their own revolutionary theory of "Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong ideas" and they were very careful in introducing soviet legal order in their country. In the matter of fact they did so fully only in constitutional law.
The present Chinese economic miracle is a result of deep reforms of 1980's and 1990's including transformation of Chinese law. Not on Soviet principle but more on Japanese experience.
After collapse of Soviet Union, its ideology and its law, all Soviet oriented Far Eastern Countries (except North Korea) begun to dismantle their Soviet-model legal systems. For China it was nothing to dismantle but their constitutional order.
Nevertheless it is still functioning there with a little perspective to be replaced in a near future.