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 used their legal opportunities and considers the significance of peasants ' participation in the judicial system for local society and the imperial polity . I argue that the township courts pro- vided a legal forum through ...
... rural people were sadly lacking in this regard . This standard is a misleading measure of legal culture , in part because it was selectively applied , in part be- cause it is inappropriate to the task . Did peasants or non - peasants ...
... rural Russia to latter - day observers . All that is required is the willingness to read expressive handwriting and to engage the intertwined vocabularies of le- gal records and peasant litigants . Second , extensive scholarship on law ...
... rural Russia . If our understanding of the so- cial admits the individuality of peasants and addresses their litigiousness , we grant peasants a role in Russia's legal history . Peasants could choose to go to court or not , in many ...
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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 |