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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... Decided and Left Undecided Annually in Township Courts of Moscow Province , 1905-1914 xxii xxiii MAPS Moscow Province , Early Twentieth Century Lake Region , Early Twentieth Century Tables 55 Table 3.1 . Estates of Plaintiffs and ...
... Decided Cases by Official Category , Moscow Province Township Courts and Sharapovskii Township Court , 1910 Table 4.1 . Subjects of Civil Cases , 1905-1917 85 86 Table 4.2 . Subjects of Suits , 1905-1917 87 120 121 122 123 Table 4.3 ...
... Table 7.6 . Criminal Cases Registered , Undecided , and Decided in Township Courts in Four Counties of Moscow Province , 1913- 1914 , with Average County and Totals for Moscow Province Preface I did not set out to write about a xii TABLES.
... decided . I focus on the last years of the im- perial regime , years that no one at the time knew as the last . I argue that legal proceedings were an accepted means of resolving conflicts in rural areas , that Russian peasants ...
... decided by three or four peasant judges , sitting in the pres- ence of a scribe who recorded the proceedings . No lawyer or other advocate would be present at the court ; litigants — usually peasants — presented their own cases ...
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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 |