RT Book
T1 Murder most Russian: true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia
A1 McReynolds, Louise 1952-
LA English
PP Ithaca, NY London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1620296918
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6535.R9
SN 978-0-8014-5145-4
K1 Murder : Russia : History
K1 Trials (Murder) : Russia : History
K1 Sociological jurisprudence : Russia : History
K1 Detective and mystery stories, Russian : History and criticism
K1 Murder in mass media
K1 Russland : Mord : Strafverfahren : Geschichte 1864-1917
K1 Russland : Mord : Strafverfahren : Mord : Motiv : Literatur : Geschichte 1864-1917