The Professor Who Has Connected the Epochs, or Whether the 1990s Were Reckless (to the 90s Anniversary of Birth of Professor V. F. Yakovleva)

Abstract

On the example of teaching experience and practice of the professor of the department of commercial law of the St. Petersburg State University V. F. Yakovleva, the assumption is made regarding the elements of adoption of the pre-revolutionary legal school experience in the 1990s. According to the author, those professors, whose teachers had got their education before 1917 or who had studied the pre-revolutionary works, played a particular positive role in facilitating the process of Russia’s return to the market economy in the 1990s after more than 70 years of the Soviet administrative economy. The author briefly criticizes the widespread among publicists and politicians characteristics of the 1990s in Russia as the “reckless” years, including given the prohibition of commercial law in the USSR and the restricted role of civil law.

Keywords:

professor Valentina Fyodorovna Yakovleva, pre-revolutionary legal scientists in the USSR, “reckless” 1990s, commercial law in the USSR