Murder Most Russian : : True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia /

Murder Most Russian : : True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia / / Louise McReynolds.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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McReynolds, Louise,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 37 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Dates and Names
  • Introduction
  • 1 Law and Order
  • 2 Criminology: Social Crime, Individual Criminal
  • 3 The Jurors
  • 4 Murder as One of the Middlebrow Arts
  • 5 Russia's Postrevolutionary Modern Men
  • 6 The "Diva of Death": Maria Tarnovskaia and the Degenerate Slavic Soul
  • 7 Crime Fiction Steps into Action
  • 8 True Crime and the Troubled Gendering of Modernity
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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