Murder most Russian : true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia /

"How a society defines crimes and prosecutes criminals illuminates its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations. In Murder Most Russian, Louise McReynolds uses a fascinating series of murders and subsequent trials that took place in the wake of the 1864 legal reforms enacted by...

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Hlavní autor: McReynolds, Louise, 1952- (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ithaca : Cornell University Press [2013]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttq43d9
Obsah:
  • Law and order
  • Criminology : social crime, but individual criminal
  • The jurors
  • Murder as one of the middlebrow arts
  • Russia's postrevolutionary modern men
  • Maria Tarnovskaia and the degenerate Slavic soul
  • Crime fiction steps into action
  • True crime and modern gendered identities.