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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... - History - 20th century . 3. Russia - Social conditions - 1801-1917 . 4. Russia - Rural conditions . I. Title . KLA1572.B87 2004 347.47'02 - dc22 1 2 3 4 5 09 08 07 06 05 04 2004002133 TO MY PARENTS , Jack and Helen Burbank , WHO.
... social significance of their myriad choices made at township courts — this became the challenge of my project ... social relations , and that their manifold actions can reshape those relationships over time . The book does not avoid the ...
... social reading of liti- gation at peasant courts was productive and even normal . I have dedicated this book to my parents , whose sixtieth wedding anniver- sary we celebrated last year . I want to say a special thank you to my sister ...
... social de- mography only underlined the magnitude of the peasant problem . In 1917 the system of legal estates was abolished by the Provisional Government , but the category " peasant " and its disabling associations did not disappear ...
... social control throughout the empire was patriarchal self - management at the village level.7 The central administration relied on landlords and local agents to collect taxes , provide recruits , and muster labor services from serfs and ...
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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 |