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. |
搜尋書籍內容
第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 44 筆
... elites for more than a century to describe , and gain at least intellectual control over , people known as peasants . My earlier work on the Russian intelligentsia during and after the Revolu- tion of 1917 revealed what I then thought ...
... elites as- pired . This way of thinking was well established by the late nineteenth century , and elites held fast to it later , through their frightening encounters with peas- ant agency during the 1905-1906 revolution and the ...
... elites , an empire overwhelmingly populated by people legally ascribed to peasant status did not mean that peasant life defined normality ; social de- mography only underlined the magnitude of the peasant problem . In 1917 the system of ...
... elites regarded peasants as backward , disorderly , and uncivilized , the records of township courts document men and women using the law to settle disputes over economic resources and social responsibility , and to combat the social ...
... elite society's notion of which courts were ordinary and which were unusual was topsy - turvy . From the per- spective of critics ... elites at the time . The prevailing discourse , which focused on a future Russia , took for granted the ...
內容
1 | |
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 |