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
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Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
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
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Terms for dependent people in rural Russia in early modern records [PDF]
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Nolte, Hans-Heinrich
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Volost Clerks in Judicial Bureaucracy: The Myths and Reality of Post-Reform Russia [PDF]
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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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 ...
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“To Judge by the Letter of the Law”: Сases Filed to Peasant Crown Courts in the Central Urals, 1780s-90s [PDF]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 ...
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