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Author McReynolds, Louise, 1952- author.

Title Murder most Russian : true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia / Louise McReynolds
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2013]
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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
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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
Murder
Murder in mass media
Sociological jurisprudence
Trials (Murder)
Russia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019725529
ISBN 9780801465468
080146546X
9780801465901
0801465907