A Social History Of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, Volume II

Boris Mironov is a specialist in the economic, demographic, and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union at Leningrad State University.

Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Patterns of State-Building; Patriarchal, Popular Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century; Paternalist, Noble Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century; Toward a Monarchy Limited by Law; The Waning Influence of the Nobility; The All-Estate Monarchy Limited by Law: 1860s-Early Twentieth Century; Conclusion: From Popular Monarchy to Rule of Law; Notes; 2. The Evolution of Servile Relations; Who Was in Bondage?; Corporate or Communal Serfdom; The Universality of Bondage, and Its Causes; The Abolition of Bondage; The Significance of Bondage; Notes; 3. Social Sources of the Demise of Bondage; The Nobility; The Clergy; The Townspeople; The Peasantry; The Hard Path to Freedom; Notes; 4. The State and the Public Sphere; The Development of the State Administration; The Development of Society from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century; Society's Influence on State Policy; Conclusion; Notes; 5. The Law: Courts, Crimes, and Punishments; Fundamental Legal Systems; Criminal Law: Codes, Regulations, and Statutes; The Principles of Criminal Law; Punishments and the Penal System; The Origins of Civil Law: The Written Record; The Judicial System and Procedural Law in the Kievan and Muscovite Periods; The Judicial System in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; The Judicial System on the Eve of the 1864 Reforms; The Judicial System from 1864 to 1913; Customary Law; Criminality in Russia in the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Russia and the West; Comparative Historical Development; Russia and Europe: Comparison as an Impetus to Russian Reforms; Comparative Social Development: From Tradition to Modernity; Conclusion; Notes; Index