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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... imperial period , I gradually uncovered one of the building blocks of the intelligentsia's habitually unreflective represen- tation of the people's will . This was the widely shared conviction — among intellectuals — that peasants , the ...
... imperial Rus- sia existed in particular discursive , political , and economic circumstances . There is no good reason to presume that they engaged their opportunities in the same ways as did agriculturalists living in different polities ...
... imperial and Soviet myth.3 Have peasants always been so " different " from other subjects and citizens of modern Russia ? Or , to put this question another way , is it possible to view the daily - life practices of rural people before ...
... imperial family , or other imperial institutions were expected to distribute taxation and other state - imposed burdens themselves . Ending serfdom obliged the state to reconfigure social relations both in the countryside and in the ...
... imperial polity . I argue that the township courts pro- vided a legal forum through which relationships of authority within families and villages were transformed gradually and peacefully , in case - by - case deci- sions . Although ...
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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 |