Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917Indiana University Press, 2004年9月16日 - 400 頁 "... 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. |
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... actions , it was essential to go beyond arguments based on perhaps singular cases or on selections of cases for a par- ticular " peasant " issue . Encouraged by some colleagues , I embarked on the en- terprise , novel for me , of ...
... actions or for prosecution of different kinds of crimes . Elsewhere the existence of an array of courts — commercial , military , civil , misdemeanor , and criminal — was not an obstacle to legal culture . What may have loomed more ...
... actions at local courts , elite considerations of the law stayed in the stratosphere of theory . The prac- ticed legal culture of Russian peasants remained invisible to political imagi- nations limited by formalistic definitions of law ...
... action , discourse , and structure , scholars locate legality in the language and actions of ordinary people . In this analytic frame , practices , criticisms , and evasions of the law reinforce a culture of legality even for people who ...
... action and in transformation in rural Russia . If our understanding of the so- cial admits the individuality of peasants and addresses their litigiousness , we grant peasants a role in Russia's legal history . Peasants could choose to ...
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A Litigious Person and Her Possibilities | 32 |
A Day at Court | 49 |
All Sorts of Suits and Disputes | 82 |
Small Crime and Punishment | 119 |
Peasant Jurisprudence | 166 |
Legal Recourse in a Time of Troubles | 202 |
A Different Justice? | 245 |
Misdemeanors to Be Adjudicated at Township Courts | 279 |
Glossary | 287 |
Note on Sources | 289 |
Abbreviations | 293 |
Notes | 295 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 355 |
Information on Data Sets | 273 |