title: An American historian on the legal culture of Russia
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metadata.value: Akishin, Mikhail O.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:18:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:18:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Akishin M. O. An American historian on the legal culture of Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 4, pp. 910–919.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/ spbu02.2017.416
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8926
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the monograph of N. Kollmann, “Crime and punishment in Russia of early modern time” (2016)
  is a sociological study of the judicial practice in cases of “thieves and wicked people” of the 17th and
  beginning of the 18th centuries. Sociology of law is the dominant type of law in Anglo-Saxon legal
  family but to the Romano-Germanic legal family, which includes Russia, the dominant is the normativity
  type of law. This cultural barrier has not been overcome by N. Kollmann, which resulted in
  annoying errors, despite the undoubted merits of her research. Among the weaker points is, at first,
  to highlight the lack of definition of those offences which it considers to be criminal offences. The
  modern legal construction of criminal law only appears in the Enlightenment. Second, N. Kollmann
  does not understand that the acts of lawmaking by princes and the king do not match the characteristics
  of a modern regulatory act, the modern concept of law and the rule of law appear in Russia in
  the epoch of Peter the Great. Third, the characteristics of adversarial and investigative process forms
  are not generally recognized in the theoretical approaches to the science of procedural law. However, a
  study in N. Kollmann, has undoubted advantages. She described relations between the authorities and
  society in counteracting “thieves and desperate people”. Its merit is the criticism of E. Anisimov’s absurd
  hypothesis of the arbitrariness of supposedly typical for Russia. On The Contrary, N. Kollmann,
  comes to reasonable conclusions about how law and law enforcement in Russia corresponded to the
  level of Europe, possessed the property of legal certainty: “the judge followed the prescribed judicial
  procedures, and punishments; the practice of criminal law has been a constant and consistent”. Refs 22.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia in early modern times
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “thieves and evil people”
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the investigative process
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: punishment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: An American historian on the legal culture of Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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