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Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

By: Frances Nethercott

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Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

By: Frances Nethercott

Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the 1990s, individual legal rights occupied a central place in the drive to modernize criminal justice. This book explores these debates, focusing particularly on the work of Vladimir Solov'ev, a leading philosopher of law writing in the 1890s.

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1134369859

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9781134369850

Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Scholarship and the Literary Canon

By: Frances Nethercott

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Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Scholarship and the Literary Canon

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It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science. Yet, in turning to works of historical writing during late Imperial Russia, Frances Nethercott reveals how this was not so; rather, she argues, fiction, lyric poetry, and sometimes even the lives of artists, consistently and significantly shaped historical enquiry. Grounding its analysis in the works of historians Timofei Granovskii, Vasilii Klyuchevskii, and Ivan Grevs, Writing History in Late Imperial Russia explores how Russian thinkers--being sensitive to the social, cultural, and psychological resonances of creative writing--drew on the literary canon as a valuable resource for understanding the past. The result is a novel and nuanced discussion of the influences of literature on the development of Russian historiography, which shines new light on late Imperial attitudes to historical investigation and considers the legacy of such historical practice on Russia today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350130427

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Russia's Plato

Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology (1840–1930)

By: Frances Nethercott

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Russia's Plato

Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology (1840–1930)

By: Frances Nethercott

This title was first published in 2000. This work identifies the differences between the Russian intellectual approach to reading Plato and that of other European countries. This study offers a complex perspective on Russian philosophical learnings up to 1930. The book contains five chapters with the first aiming to provide the general institutional context in which Russian 19th century Plato scholarship developed, caught as it were, between the rise of the historical sciences and the heavy hand of state interference in standardizing the educational system in the name of nation building and modernization. The second chapter attempts to illustrate how Plato served as a reference in Russian philosophical culture and the third deals with aspects of Russian philosophy of law. In the fourth chapter, the author shifts his approach to compare and contrast a number of reactions to a single dialogue, the "Republic" and in the final concluding chapter, addresses the question of whether it is legitimate to speak of a Russian Platonism.

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1351726307

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Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

By: Frances Millard

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Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

By: Frances Millard

This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. Until now, there has been no equivalent study covering similar developments in this, or any other, post-communist country; this book fills the gap and provides a detailed electoral perspective on the trajectory of political development in the context of post-authoritarian change. It also provides an invaluable account of the evolution of electoral processes and institution-building in the context of democratic regime development. The major themes of the book centre on the complex, problematic development of Poland’s political parties and the parties’ failure to gain public support and win the confidence of the electorate. Frances Millard examines the failure of Polish elites; the lack of a stable party system and how elections have had a destabilizing effect, and she argues that the interaction of leadership volatility, party volatility, and electoral volatility have created uncertainty and undermined political parties as effective vehicles of representation. Poland is a large and important country, worthy of study in its own right, but equally many of the problems experienced are not unique to Poland; so this book also constitutes a comparative benchmark for analysis of democratic developments elsewhere.

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1135276234

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9781135276232

Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

By: Frances Nethercott

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Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

By: Frances Nethercott

Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in this regard were few, their example as liberal humanists remains important today in renewed efforts to promote juridical awareness and respect for law. A case in point is the role played by Vladimir Solov’ev. One of Russia’s most celebrated moral philosophers, his defence of the ‘right to a dignified existence’ and his brilliant critique of the death penalty not only contributed to the development of a legal consciousness during his lifetime, but also inspired appeals for a more humane system of justice in post-Soviet debate. This book addresses the issues involved and their origins in late Imperial legal thought. More specifically, it examines competing theories of crime and the criminal, together with various prescriptions for punishment respecting personal inviolability. Charting endeavours of the juridical community to promote legal culture through reforms and education, the book also throws light on aspects of Russian politics, society and mentality in two turbulent periods of Russian history.

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1134369840

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Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Scholarship and the Literary Canon

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1350130419

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Russia's Plato

Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology (1840–1930)

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Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology (1840–1930)

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Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Russia's Plato

Russia's Plato

Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Russia's Plato

Russia's Plato

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