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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... areas , that Russian peasants inhabited and shaped the legal culture of their country , and that the legal experience of the rural population constituted an unrecognized foundation for a law - based polity . Legal proceedings in all ...
... areas ( 1889 ) , and abolition of corporal punishment ( 1863 , 1904 ) .* These changes in the legal system were part of a gradual and profound re- definition of the linkages between central authorities and their peasant sub- jects ...
... area , thus roughly six hundred to four thousand people . In practice , townships varied in size ; by the early twen- tieth century , more than half of all the townships were larger than the upper limit prescribed by law . The township ...
... areas en- ables a rethinking of what legality , legal culture , and legal consciousness can mean . Some schools of peasant studies still insist on the collective otherness of peasants , leaving them outsiders to the state . This ...
... areas in which peasant and non - peasant actors shared some space , room to maneuver , and the ability to engage each other . The harshest divide con- sidered in these three works was that of master and serf . Hoch's study of this ...
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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 |