Name: murder most russian (en Inglés)
SKU: 9199623
Price: 65.29 USD
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Author: McReynolds, Louise
ISBN: 9780801451454

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Louise McReynolds

Editorial

Cornell University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24.7x16.3x2.2 cm

Peso

0.55 kg.

ISBN

0801451450

ISBN13

9780801451454

Categorías

Rusia
Urss, unión soviética
Crímenes y delitos reales: asesinos y homicidas en serie
Cultura popular
Historia de otras zonas y regiones geográficas

murder most russian (en Inglés)

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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.As McReynolds shows, newspapers covered such trials extensively, transforming the courtroom into the most public site in Russia for deliberation about legality and justice. To understand the cultural and social consequences of murder in late imperial Russia, she analyzes the discussions that arose among the emergent professional criminologists, defense attorneys, and expert forensic witnesses about what made a defendant's behavior "criminal." She also deftly connects real criminal trials to the burgeoning literary genre of crime fiction and fruitfully compares the Russian case to examples of crimes both from Western Europe and the United States in this period.Murder Most Russian will appeal not only to readers interested in Russian culture and true crime but also to historians who study criminology, urbanization, the role of the social sciences in forging the modern state, evolving notions of the self and the psyche, the instability of gender norms, and sensationalism in the modern media.