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9780253344267

Russian Peasants Go to Court

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  • ISBN13:

    9780253344267

  • ISBN10:

    0253344263

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-08-01
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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Summary

"... 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. WagnerRussian 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.

Author Biography

Jane Burbank is Professor of History and Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. She is author of Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917--1922 and co-editor (with David L. Ransel) of Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire (IUP, 1998).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
List of Tables
xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Note on Transliteration xxi
The Peasant Question and the Law
1(31)
A Litigious Person and Her Possibilities
32(17)
A Day at Court
49(33)
All Sorts of Suits and Disputes
82(37)
Small Crime and Punishment
119(47)
Peasant Jurisprudence
166(36)
Legal Recourse in a Time of Troubles
202(43)
A Different Justice?
245(28)
Appendix 1. Information on Data Sets 273(6)
Appendix 2. Misdemeanors to Be Adjudicated at Township Courts 279(8)
Glossary 287(2)
Note on Sources 289(4)
Abbreviations 293(2)
Notes 295(46)
Bibliography 341(14)
Index 355

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