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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... rules that guided my work on this project . First , I would try to represent activities and imaginaries of Russian peasants without pre- suming their collectivity . Second , I would ignore the grand opposition between state and society ...
... rule , radicals , reformers , and conservatives worried about the threat that the huge rural population posed to their disparate visions of a desirable polity . For Russia's elites , an empire overwhelmingly populated by people legally ...
... rule , fears about the retrograde values of rural people still structure the ways that a new era of reforms is imagined and carried out in Russia . Decades of treating peasants as second - class citizens may have made dystopian visions ...
... rules ; the precise language of statutes was a matter for clerks and judges to engage . Second , the notion that a single uniform judicial system was essential to the development of a legal culture should be questioned , rather than ...
... rules . This interpretation cor- responded to the preoccupation with regulation , normality , and educational discipline described evocatively by Foucault and prominent in pan - European legal theory , 30 Since custom and law were seen ...
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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 |