Book contents
- The Lawful Empire
- The Lawful Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 Minority Rights and Legal Integration in the Russian Empire
- 2 Borderlands No More
- 3 Implementing Legal Change
- 4 Images and Practices in the New Courts
- 5 Seeking Justice
- 6 Confronting the State
- 7 Dealing with Unrest
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Dealing with Unrest
Crime and Punishment in the “Crisis Years” 1878–9
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019
Book contents
- The Lawful Empire
- The Lawful Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 Minority Rights and Legal Integration in the Russian Empire
- 2 Borderlands No More
- 3 Implementing Legal Change
- 4 Images and Practices in the New Courts
- 5 Seeking Justice
- 6 Confronting the State
- 7 Dealing with Unrest
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Focusing on the “crisis year” 1879, in which uprisings by Volga Tatars were violently crushed by the Kazan authorities, the final chapter investigates one of the situations in which the existing legal order broke down and gave way to arbitrary rule. The example shows that while the formalized rule of law was influential by the late 1870s, it continued to be challenged by the autocratic order.
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- The Lawful EmpireLegal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, pp. 248 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019