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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jane BurbankPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.762kg ISBN: 9780253344267ISBN 10: 0253344263 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 16 September 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Peasant Question and the Law 2. A Litigious Person and Her Possibilities 3. A Day at Court 4. All Sorts of Suits and Disputes 5. Small Crime and Punishment 6. Peasant Jurisprudence 7. Legal Recourse in a Time of Troubles 8. How Different a Justice? Appendix 1: Information on Data Sets Appendix 2: Misdemeanors Adjudicable at Township Courts Glossary Abbreviations Note on Sources Notes Bibliography IndexReviews.. .a major contribution to our understanding both of the dynamic of change within the peasantry and of legal development in late Imperial Russia. <p> Using numerous case records from volost courts from 1905 to 1917, Burbank (New York Univ.) argues that the peasants who judged and were judged inthese courts showed notable respect for law and legal procedure. The panel ofjudges, a small jury in the author's thinking, was guided by reason, a concern fordocumentary proof, and the evidence of witnesses, the hallmarks of the legal orderthat went unrecognized by contemporary educated society. Burbank believes that thedisparagement of peasant justice as disorderly, corrupt, and ignorant was based ondata from the 19th century. But she also disagrees with those who see peasantjustice as a protest against the state and its laws. Her argument is persuasive, especially when she presents peasants as individuals rather than exemplars of aclass. Only in passing does she suggest that her peasant actors may have been moreenterprising than others. Although Burbank disagrees with critics of peasantjustice, their data for the 19th century is also pe Using numerous case records from volost courts from 1905 to 1917, Burbank (New York Univ.) argues that the peasants who judged and were judged in these courts showed notable respect for law and legal procedure. The panel of judges, a small jury in the author's thinking, was guided by reason, a concern for documentary proof, and the evidence of witnesses, the hallmarks of the legal order that went unrecognized by contemporary educated society. Burbank believes that the disparagement of peasant justice as disorderly, corrupt, and ignorant was based on data from the 19th century. But she also disagrees with those who see peasant justice as a protest against the state and its laws. Her argument is persuasive, especially when she presents peasants as individuals rather than exemplars of a class. Only in passing does she suggest that her peasant actors may have been more enterprising than others. Although Burbank disagrees with critics of peasant justice, their data for the 19th century is also persuasive. Moreover, readers may not share the author's perplexity that her law-abiding, but admittedly uncivil, peasants made a revolution in 1917. But they should read her book. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- D. Balmuth * emeritus, Skidmore College , 2005jun CHOICE. * Author InformationJane 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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