Russian Peasants Go to Court
Subtitle: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780253344267
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: from c 1900 -; Jurisprudence & General Issues; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1900 - c 1914; History - General History; History: World; Russia; Civil Procedure; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; 20th century; Customary law; History; Justice, Administration of; Legal status, laws, etc; Peasantry
First sentence: Peasants are the long-term others of Russian history.
Description: "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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.