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Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914
Stephen P. Frank
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Hardback. Explores the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. This title offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 396 pages, 7 b/w illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; JFSF; JHM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I. Viewing crime and punishment as contested metaphors about social order, his revisionist study documents the varied understandings of criminality and justice that underlay deep conflicts in Russian society, and it contrasts official and elite representations of rural criminality - and of peasants ... Read more
This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I. Viewing crime and punishment as contested metaphors about social order, his revisionist study documents the varied understandings of criminality and justice that underlay deep conflicts in Russian society, and it contrasts official and elite representations of rural criminality - and of peasants ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Series
Studies on the History of Society & Culture
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520213418
SKU
V9780520213418
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About Stephen P. Frank
Stephen P. Frank is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor, with Ben Eklof, of The World of the Russian Peasant: Post-Emancipation Culture and Society (1990) and, with Mark Steinberg, of Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia (1994).
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