The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia

Author:   Stefan B. Kirmse
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108499439


Pages:   310
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Format:   Hardback
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The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia


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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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Author:   Stefan B. Kirmse
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781108499439


ISBN 10:   1108499430
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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'... the book is an excellent introduction both to the most successful of the great reforms and to how ordinary people, and in particular ethnic and religious minorities, resorted to the new courts in the first decades of their functioning.' Jonathan Daly, The Slavonic and East European Review


'... the book is an excellent introduction both to the most successful of the great reforms and to how ordinary people, and in particular ethnic and religious minorities, resorted to the new courts in the first decades of their functioning.' Jonathan Daly, The Slavonic and East European Review


'... the book is an excellent introduction both to the most successful of the great reforms and to how ordinary people, and in particular ethnic and religious minorities, resorted to the new courts in the first decades of their functioning.' Jonathan Daly, The Slavonic and East European Review '... Kirmse's careful reading of the secondary and comparative literature on law in imperial contexts and his close examination of specific cases in these two fascinating areas make his book essential reading for historians of law and Muslim communities in the Russian Empire.' Charles Steinwedel, Central Asian Survey 'This is a book filled with wonderful insights on popular legal practice and the concept of culture diversity in the Russian Empire.' Katil Fred Hansen, English Historical Review 'The book contains everything needed to acquaint the reader with its content, including maps, detailed lists of primary sources and secondary literature, and a remarkably well-crafted and useful index. Moreover, it provides new insight amidst the ever-growing literature on the regional history of both Crimea and Kazan Province, and on their Muslim communities in particular.' Michel Tissier, H-Soz-Kult-Zentralredaktion


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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).

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