Russian Peasants Go to Court

副标题: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917

ISBN: 9780253344267

出版社: Indiana University Press

出版年: 2004-9-1

页数: 400

定价: USD 49.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

"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.