(Source: CUP)
Cambridge University Press is publishing a new book on legal
practice in late Tsarist Russia.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Russian Empire and its legal
institutions have often been associated with arbitrariness, corruption, and the
lack of a 'rule of law'. Stefan B. Kirmse challenges these assumptions in this
important new study of empire-building, minority rights, and legal practice in
late Tsarist Russia, revealing how legal reform transformed ordinary people's
interaction with state institutions from the 1860s to the 1890s. By focusing on
two regions that stood out for their ethnic and religious diversity, the book
follows the spread of the new legal institutions into the open steppe of
Southern Russia, especially Crimea, and into the fields and forests of the Middle
Volga region around the ancient Tatar capital of Kazan. It explores the degree
to which the courts served as instruments of integration: the integration of
former borderlands with the imperial centre and the integration of the empire's
internal 'others' with the rest of society.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stefan B. Kirmse, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner
Orient, Berlin
Stefan B. Kirmse is a Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin and a Senior Lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is the author of Youth and Globalization in Central Asia (2013), and the editor of Youth in the Former Soviet South (2011) and One Law for All? (2012).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Minority rights and legal integration in the Russian
empire
2. Borderlands no more: Crimea and Kazan in the
mid-nineteenth century
3. Implementing legal change: new courts for Crimea and
Kazan
4. Images and practices in the new courts: the enactment of
monarchy, modesty, and cultural diversity
5. Seeking justice: Muslim Tatars go to court
6. Confronting the state: peasant resistance over land and
faith
7. Dealing with unrest: crime and punishment in the 'crisis
years' 1878–79
Conclusion.
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