Civil rights in imperial Russia

Author(s)

• Crisp, Olga
• Edmondson, Linda Harriet

Bibliographic Information

Civil rights in imperial Russia

edited by Olga Crisp and Linda Edmondson

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a study of civil rights in Russia before the Revolution of 1917. It challenges the conventional view, held by both Western and Soviet historians, that concepts of civil rights and the relationship of the individual to the state fell on barren soil in Imperial Russia. Concern for legal guarantees of personal freedom has been a recurrent theme in Russian political discourse and in Russian and Soviet legal theory. This collection of essays reveals the complexity of the issues surrounding civil rights before 1917. New perspectives are offered on familiar problems such as freedom of speech and association, personal inviolability and equality before the law. The text demonstrates the immediate relevance of the concept of civil rights to the study of Russian history and of the Soviet Union today.

Table of Contents

• Civil rights in Russia - legal standards in gestation, W.E.Butler
• property rights, populism and Russian political culture, Richard Wortman
• peasant land tenure and civil rights implications before 1906, Olga Crisp
• the Trojan mare - women's rights and civil rights in late Imperial Russia, William G.Wagner
• privileges, rights and Russification, Raymond Pearson
• religious toleration in late Imperial Russia, Peter Waldron
• the concept of "Jewish emancipation" in a Russian context, John D.Klier
• workers and civil rights in Tsarist Russia, 1899-1917, S.A.Smith
• freedom of association and the trade unions, 1906-1914, G.R.Swain
• freedom of the press under the old regime, 1905-1914, Caspar Ferenczi
• crime and punishment in the house of the dead, Alan Wood
• the security police, civil rights and the fate of the Russian empire, 1855-1917, D.C.B.Lieven
• was there a movement for civil rights in 1905?, Linda Edmondson
• civil rights and the provisional government, H.J.White.

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Details

• NCID: BA07330743
• ISBN:
  • 0198228678
• LCCN: 88028812
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford,Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 321 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JC599.S58
  • DC19 : 323.1/47
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Civil rights -- Soviet Union -- History
  • LCSH : Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1855-1881
  • LCSH : Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1881-1894
  • LCSH : Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917