Marriage, Property, and Law in Late Imperial Russia
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 13 October 1994
- ISBN 9780198204473
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages428 pages
- Size 223x146x31 mm
- Weight 651 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
This is the first systematic study of civil law in late Imperial Russia. It shows how efforts to reform the civil law provoked conflict within and between the state administration, the Orthodox Church, and society in general. It incorporates many sources only recently made available, and is an important contribution to the history of late Imperial Russia.
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This is the first systematic study of civil law in late Imperial Russia. It shows that efforts to adjust family, property, and inheritance law to changing social and economic conditions often became intertwined with attempts to shape society in accordance with competing ideological ideals. Through a restructuring of the family's legal basis, members of the growing educated and professional strata of society in particular endeavoured to promote conflicting coneptions of authority, individuality, gender, and law. Legal reform also served for members of the emerging legal and medical professions as a way to establish their authority, often at the expense of the state administration and the Orthodox Chruch.
Civil law in late Imperial Russia therefore constituted both an important medium for ideological redefinition and a field of battle for those seeking to reform, to overthrow, or to defend the ancien regime. Because this battle extended into the state bureaucracy, legislative change proved extremely difficult. Newly empowered by the 1864 judicial reform, the judiciar responded to legislative inaction by not merely adapting the law, but also by promoting an ideal of the family whose values and principles challenged those underlying the autocracy. Professor Wagner's detailed and scholarly analysis of these issues offers many important insights into cultural attitudes and political structures in late Imperial Russia.
Of the precious few western historical works on late imperial Russian law, this one is by all odds the best...this work achieves two noteworthy accomplishments: it places Russia in the context of nineteenth-century European civil law reform and it allows for a better understanding of the Soviet civil law system which followed...Wagner's examination of imperial law provides a partial corrective to the historical construct of a break in Russian legal development; by so doing, he contributes to a clarification of Soviet law's place in legal history.
