Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914: Volume 31

by Stephen P. Frank

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520213416
• ISBN13: 9780520213418
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"