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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... Township Courts , Moscow Province , 1905 Table 3.5 . Number of Courts of First Instance in Moscow Province , 1905 Table 3.6 . Number of Cases Processed Yearly by Township Courts in Moscow Province , 1905-1914 Table 3.7 . Numbers and ...
... Township Courts , 1905- 1917 Table 5.6 . Types of Misdemeanors as Percentages of Statute Law Available to Justices of the Peace , Percentages of Statutes Available for Use at Township Courts , and Percentages of Crimi- nal Cases ...
... township ( volost ' ) as the local authority over peasants ' administrative and judicial affairs . Modeled on the church parish , a township combined several rural societies with their contiguous territories and peasant settlements . In ...
... township courts document men and women using the law to settle disputes over economic resources and social responsibility , and to combat the social damage of petty , but hurtful , criminality . Court proceed- ings reveal litigants ...
... township courts in the legal sys- tem is that these rural courts decided " 80 percent of all cases from 80 percent of the population . " 27 The township courts that processed the majority of cases coming from the majority of the ...
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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 |