The lawful empire, legal change and cultural diversity in late Tsarist Russia, Stefan B. Kirmse
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The lawful empire, legal change and cultural diversity in late Tsarist Russia, Stefan B. Kirmse
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The lawful empire
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1129197271
Responsibility statement
Stefan B. Kirmse
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
legal change and cultural diversity in late Tsarist Russia
Summary
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.--, Provided by publisher
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