The Lawful Empire : Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia Hardback
by Stefan B. Kirmse
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:310 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Maps; 3 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781108499439
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:310 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Maps; 3 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108499439
