Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914 (Volume 31) (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

Frank, Stephen P.

ISBN 10: 0520213416 / ISBN 13: 9780520213418

Published by University of California Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914 (Volume 31) (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520213416
• ISBN 13: 9780520213418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).