TY - BOOK ID - 85552778 TI - The lawful empire : legal change and cultural diversity in late Tsarist Russia PY - 2019 SN - 1108606369 1108582710 1108499430 1108602770 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Rule of law KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Cultural diversity KW - Diversity, Cultural KW - Diversity, Religious KW - Ethnic diversity KW - Pluralism (Social sciences) KW - Pluralism, Cultural KW - Religious diversity KW - Culture KW - Cultural fusion KW - Ethnicity KW - Multiculturalism KW - Supremacy of law KW - Administrative law KW - Constitutional law KW - Administration of justice KW - Courts KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Russia KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85552778 AB - The Russian Empire and its legal institutions have often been associated with arbitrariness, corruption, and the lack of a 'rule of law'. Stefan B. Kirmse challenges these assumptions in this important new study of empire-building, minority rights, and legal practice in late Tsarist Russia, revealing how legal reform transformed ordinary people's interaction with state institutions from the 1860s to the 1890s. By focusing on two regions that stood out for their ethnic and religious diversity, the book follows the spread of the new legal institutions into the open steppe of Southern Russia, especially Crimea, and into the fields and forests of the Middle Volga region around the ancient Tatar capital of Kazan. It explores the degree to which the courts served as instruments of integration: the integration of former borderlands with the imperial centre and the integration of the empire's internal 'others' with the rest of society. ER -