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LEADER: 02231nam a22003138a 4500
001 2012025097
003 DLC
005 20120625102820.0
008 120619s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2012025097
020 $a9780801451454 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aNIC/DLC$cNIC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-ur---
050 00 $aHV6535.R9$bM36 2013
082 00 $a364.152/3094709034$223
100 1 $aMcReynolds, Louise,$d1952-
245 10 $aMurder most Russian :$btrue crime and punishment in late imperial Russia /$cLouise McReynolds.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2013.
263 $a1209
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aLaw 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.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aMurder$zRussia$xHistory.
650 0 $aTrials (Murder)$zRussia$xHistory.
650 0 $aSociological jurisprudence$zRussia$xHistory.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, Russian$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMurder in mass media.