Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-

Crime and punishment in early modern Russia [electronic resource] / Nancy Shields Kollmann. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xvi, 488 p. - New studies in European history .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foundations of criminal law -- The problem of professionalism : judicial staff -- Staff and society -- Policing officialdom -- Procedure and evidence -- Torture -- Resolving a case -- Petrine reforms and the criminal law -- Corporal punishment to 1648 -- Corporal punishment, 1649-98 -- To the exile system -- Peter I and punishment -- Capital punishment : form and ritual -- Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century -- Factions, witchcraft, and heresy - Riot and rebellion -- Moral economies : spectacles and sacrifice -- Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering -- Conclusion : Russian legal culture.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Criminal law--Russia (Federation)
Punishment--Russia (Federation)


Electronic books.

KLB3946 / .K65 2012

364.94709/03