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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... rural people as they made their way through peacetime , war , and revolution . This study views local life from the standpoint of a single legal instance , and does not claim to represent the whole range of legal activities in which ...
... rural population posed to their disparate visions of a desirable polity . For Russia's elites , an empire overwhelmingly populated by people legally ascribed to peasant status did not mean that peasant life defined normality ; social de ...
... 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 real : it could be argued that the disabling ...
... rural justice in the early twentieth century were put in place by a series of reforms begin- ning in the 1830s . In pursuit of orderly administration , officials made major adjustments to the Russian legal system in the nineteenth ...
... rural society for the reg- ulation of their economic affairs . " The rural society was the lowest - level unit of peasant self - administration , and a most important one . The society's re- corded resolutions were legal documents that ...
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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 |