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Author McReynolds, Louise, 1952- author.

Title Murder most Russian : true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia / Louise McReynolds.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations, portraits
text file PDF rda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Law and order -- Criminology : social crime, but individual criminal -- The jurors -- Murder as one of the middlebrow arts -- Russia's postrevolutionary modern men -- Maria Tarnovskaia and the degenerate Slavic soul -- Crime fiction steps into action -- True crime and modern gendered identities.
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.
Language In English.
Subject Murder -- Russia -- History.
Trials (Murder) -- Russia -- History.
Sociological jurisprudence -- Russia -- History.
Detective and mystery stories, Russian -- History and criticism.
Murder in mass media.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Detective and mystery stories, Russian. (OCoLC)fst00891565
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
Murder in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01029805
Sociological jurisprudence. (OCoLC)fst01123856
Trials (Murder) (OCoLC)fst01156368
Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: 9780801451454 0801451450 (DLC) 2012025097
ISBN 9780801465901 (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.7591/9780801465901 doi
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