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Social Welfare Provision at the Imperial Edge: Single Mothers and Abandoned Children in the Late Russian Empire

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 973-993, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article looks to the societal and imperial margins to examine attitudes towards social welfare provision in the final decades of the Russian Empire. Drawing on archival material from the Empire's Estliand province (now northern Estonia), the article focuses on the self‐representation of single mothers and official discussions of abandoned
Siobhán Hearne
wiley   +1 more source

Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 649-667, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
wiley   +1 more source

Volost Clerks in Judicial Bureaucracy: The Myths and Reality of Post-Reform Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The article was submitted on 06.02.2021.В историографии сформировались полярные оценки деятельности представителей системы волостного самоуправления в пореформенный период Российской империи.
Popp, I., Попп, И. А.
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VOLOST AND MAGISTRATE COURTS IN THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SPACE OF POST-REFORM RUSSIA (ON THE MATERIALS OF SAMARA PROVINCE IN 1861-1889)

open access: yesIzvestiya of Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. History Sciences, 2022
The article is devoted to the formation and reform of local justice in 1861-1889 from the perspective of local (regional) history using the methodology of socio-cultural analysis, the concepts of “social trust” and “social capital”. It contains a characteristic of the volost courts in the state and udel villages of the Samara province until the 1861 ...
openaire   +1 more source

“To Judge by the Letter of the Law”: Сases Filed to Peasant Crown Courts in the Central Urals, 1780s-90s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The article is dedicated to the question of Justiznutzung or uses of justice at Russian provincial courts during the 1780-1790-ies. Catherine II`s judicial reform (1775–1785) introduced an estate-based court system. For the first time in Russian history,
Plate, A.
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Волостное управление по Учреждению для управления Сибирских губерний 1822 г. (К 250-летию со дня рождения М.М. Сперанского) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The subject. Many shortcomings in the current state of local government and self-government systems are that in the process of forming the institutions of Russian public power, there were not evolutionary qualitative changes, but, on the contrary, there ...
I. A. Konovalov   +1 more
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Starcie kultur prawnych: Przekład na język angielski jako język komunikacji interkulturowej [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Increasing supranational legislation and other factors fuel interaction between legal cultures. This leads to greater need both for a new breed of international lawyer and for legal translators.
Goddard, Christopher
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Municipalism in Ukraine: historical experience and perspectives on development (Муніципалізм в Україні: історичний досвід та перспективи розвитку) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Problem statement. The article is devoted to the study of local self-government as a mandatory component of state-building.Analysing the main stages of modern state development, the author asserts that local self-government existed as the main form of ...
Drobush,, Iryna (Дробуш Ірина)
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Determinants of property rights in Poland and Ukraine: the polity or politicians? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
North (1994) famously remarked that ‘it is the polity that defines and enforces property rights’. This paper traces the development of property rights in Poland and Ukraine and explores their divergence over the past three centuries using North's ...
Blum   +36 more
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