Murder most Russian [electronic resource] : true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia / Louise McReynolds.
McReynolds, Louise, 1952-
2013
HV6535.R9 M36 2013eb
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Title Murder most Russian [electronic resource] : true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia / Louise McReynolds.
Author McReynolds, Louise, 1952-
ISBN 9780801451454 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801465901 (e-book)
Publication Details Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description xi, 274 p. : ill., ports.
Call Number HV6535.R9 M36 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.152/3094709034
Summary "How a society defines crimes and prosecutes criminals illuminates its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations. In Murder Most Russian, Louise McReynolds uses a fascinating series of murders and subsequent trials that took place in the wake of the 1864 legal reforms enacted by Tsar Alexander II to understand the impact of these reforms on Russian society before the Revolution of 1917. For the first time in Russian history, the accused were placed in the hands of juries of common citizens in courtrooms that were open to the press. Drawing on a wide array of sources, McReynolds reconstructs murders that gripped Russian society, from the case of Andrei Gilevich, who advertised for a personal secretary and beheaded the respondent as a way of perpetrating insurance fraud, to the beating death of Marianna Time at the hands of two young aristocrats who hoped to steal her diamond earrings"--Publisher's Web site.
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