Hi all, I'm writing an essay about liberal reform in Russia in the latter part of the 19th century and am having a hard time finding information specifically about juridical changes. Any insight as well as any suggestions for recommended reading would be amazing.
Since this question is apparently related to howework, giving you a full answer would be a bit of a violation of the sub's rules, but giving recommended reading sources is not. One thing for you to do is to run out to the library and check out the anthology Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881 edited by Ben Eklof which has an essay entitled "Jurors and Jury Trials in Imperial Russia, 1866-1885." You should also via JSTOR or other database check out the article "Witnessing for the Defense: The Adversarial Court and Narratives of Criminal Behavior in Nineteenth-Century Russia." by Louise McReynolds. She has also written a monograph, Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia which looks at the emerging popular attitudes towards the post-Great Reforms legal system. There is also the monograph Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914 by Stephen P. Frank which covers the shifting attitudes towards criminality among the post-Emancipation Russian peasantry.
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