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Russian peasants go to court : legal culture in the countryside, 1905-1917
2004
Overview
... will challenge (and should transform) existing interpretations
of late Imperial Russian governance, peasant studies, and Russian legal
history. -- Cathy A. Frierson ... a major contribution
to our understanding both of the dynamic of change within the peasantry and of legal
development in late Imperial Russia. -- William G.
Wagner Russian Peasants Go to Court brings into focus the legal
practice of Russian peasants in the township courts of the Russian empire from 1905
through 1917. Contrary to prevailing conceptions of peasants as backward, drunken,
and ignorant, and as mistrustful of the state, Jane Burbank's study of court records
reveals engaged rural citizens who valued order in their communities and made use of
state courts to seek justice and to enforce and protect order. Through narrative
studies of individual cases and statistical analysis of a large body of court
records, Burbank demonstrates that Russian peasants made effective use of legal
opportunities to settle disputes over economic resources, to assert personal
dignity, and to address the bane of small crimes in their communities. The text is
enhanced by contemporary photographs and lively accounts of individual court
cases.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
/ Customary law -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
/ Europe
/ HISTORY
/ Justice, Administration of -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
/ Peasantry -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
/ Peasants
/ Russia
/ Russia & the Former Soviet Union
ISBN
9780253344267, 0253344263
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