| Description |
xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Murder -- Russia -- History.
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Murder. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
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Trials (Murder) -- Russia -- History.
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Trials (Murder) |
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Sociological jurisprudence -- Russia -- History.
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Sociological jurisprudence. |
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Detective and mystery stories, Russian -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, Russian. |
| Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery stories, Russian.
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| Subject |
Murder in mass media.
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Murder in mass media. |
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Mass media. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780801451454 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801451450 cloth alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
40021728425 |
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