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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... tion of 1917 revealed what I then thought of as their enduring , even endear- ing , populism . Engaged intellectuals of different political outlooks appeared convinced that " the people " did , or would , support their — the ...
... the resources of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies and from Informa- tion Technology Services . Hannah D'Arcey was a patient and superb tutor in data collection and analysis . In 2002 I joined the xviii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... tion of legal culture in Russia and the conventional representation of town- ship courts . These conceptions are , first , that a legal culture rests on citizens ' knowledge of the written law ; second , that a single , uniform national ...
... tion of the population into the empire's legal system . Users of township courts were not engaged , as were Russian elites , in an explicit struggle about the le- gality or arbitrariness of autocratic government — they were not ...
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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 |