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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... 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 ...
... Individual Cases : Prewar and Wartime Percentages and Number of Cases Table 7.5 . Sex of Parties , Types of Criminal Cases , and Outcomes at the Tsaritsynskii Township Court , January through August 1916 Table 7.6 . Criminal Cases ...
... individuals with a variety of notions of how to live , in a profusion of conflicts with their neighbors , families , and business partners . These individuals were not content with custom ; they had to have the law . When I first ...
... individual- izes leaders , be they tsars or general secretaries or presidents , but collectivizes " the people , " peasants , Russians , and others . Still , to give individuals voice is not to forget that they are always linked and in ...
... individuals , no more or less moral than any others , sought to resolve their differences and punish injustice through a process sanctioned and sus- tained by the Russian state . I ask readers to consider legal culture from a new ...
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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 |