Crime and punishment in early modern Russia
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Crime and punishment in early modern Russia
(New studies in European history)
Cambridge University Press, 2015, c2012
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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"First paperback edition 2015"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-478) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. She compares Russia's rituals of execution to the 'spectacles of suffering' of contemporary European capital punishment and uncovers the dramatic ways in which even the tsar himself, complying with Moscow's ideologies of legitimacy, bent to the moral economy of the crowd in moments of uprising. Throughout, the book assesses how criminal legal practice used violence strategically, administering horrific punishments in some cases and in others accommodating with local communities and popular concepts of justice.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Judicial Culture: 1. Foundations of the criminal law
- 2. The problem of professionalism: judicial staff
- 3. Staff and society
- 4. Policing of officialdom
- 5. Procedure and evidence
- 6. Torture
- 7. Resolving a case
- 8. Petrine reforms and the criminal law
- Part II. Punishment: 9. Corporal punishment to 1648
- 10. Corporal punishment, 1649-98
- 11. To the exile system
- 12. Peter I and punishment
- 13. Capital punishment: form and ritual
- 14. Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century
- 15. Factions, witchcraft and heresy
- 16. Riot and rebellion
- 17. Moral economies: spectacle and sacrifice
- 18. Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering
- Conclusion: Russian legal culture
- Appendix: punishment for felonies
- Bibliography.
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