Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 /

This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between...

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מחבר ראשי: Frank, Stephen, 1955-
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press 1999.
סדרה:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 31.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501085
תוכן הענינים:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I-- REPRESENTATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE PROBLEM OF ORDER: Colonial Perspectives: Representations and Realities of Rural Crime and Justice
  • A Portraiture of Numbers: Rural Crime and Peasant Felons in the Judicial Statistics
  • PART II-- CRIME, JUSTICE, AND THE LAW IN VILLAGE LIFE: VIEWS FROM BELOW: Understandings of the Law: Property, Crime, and Justice through Peasant Eyes
  • The Hidden Realm of Rural Property Crime
  • From Insult to Homicide: Honor, Violence, and Crimes against Persons
  • Questions of Belief: "Superstition," Crime, and the Law
  • Varieties of Punishment: Between Court and Administrative Authority
  • Unofficial Justice in the Village
  • Savages at the Gates: Bandits, Hooligans, and the Last Crime Wave
  • CONCLUSION