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Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914

Stephen P Frank author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:11th Feb '99

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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 - with the realities of everyday crime at the village level.

ISBN: 9780520213418

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 726g

396 pages