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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457999603321

Autore

Wortman Richard

Titolo

The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

347.47

347/.47

Soggetti

Courts -- Russia -- History

Justice, Administration of -- Russia -- History

Lawyers --Russia

Courts - History - Soviet Union

Lawyers - History - Soviet Union

Justice, Administration of - Soviet Union

Law - Non-U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; I. Autocracy and the Law; 1. Absolutism and Justice in Eighteenth-Century Russia; 2. Bureaucratization, Specialization, and Education; 3. The Composition of the Russian Legal Administration in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; II. The Men; Introduction: The Noble Legal Official; 4. Russia's First Minister of Justice; 5. The Quiet Shelter; 6. Count Dmitrii Nikolaevich Bludov; 7. Count Victor Nikitich Panin; 8. The Emergence of a Legal Ethos; III. Reform; Introduction: The Old Judiciary; 9. The Aspiration to Legality

10. Epilogue and ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were



expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal experts who emerged during the reign of Nicholas I (1826 - 56) and who began to view the law as a uniquely modern and independent source of authority. Discussing how new legal institutions fit into the traditional system of tsarist rule, Wortman analyzes how conflict arose from the same intellectual processes that produced legal reform. He ultimat