title: Historical dynamics of judicial and legal integration of the Russian Empire
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metadata.value: Verniaev, Igor
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-10-20T15:26:17Z
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metadata.value: 2021-10-20T15:26:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-10
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.isbn
metadata.value: 978-5-288-06146-2
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33321
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metadata.value: From its inception, the Russian Empire sought to create a unified judicial and legal space. Legal pluralism was not considered to be a value and something worth being preserved in the long term. However, multidimensional diversity of the population and regions, coupled with continuing expansion of the empire made achieving the strategic goal of legal and judicial homogeneity difficult.
  The historiography of the question offers different viewpoints on the level of integration of the imperial judicial and legal system. Some researchers insist that the imperial center overall managed to unite and uniform the judicial system and the legislation. Others argue that the judiciary, legal culture, and norms remained heterogeneous in the estate, ethnic, religious, and regional dimensions.
  The purpose of this book is to provide an objective assessment of the processes and outcomes of imperial judicial and legal integration from the 18th to the early 20th century. The findings demonstrate that the main method of integration was formation of hybrid justice and legal institutions. In this process, empire-wide judicial and legal models were adapted to the local specifics, while some elements of regional, ethnic and confessional judicial practices and legal cultures were incorporated into the imperial system of courts and legislation.
  The highest level of judicial and legal uniformity was achieved among the elite strata. The commoners remained less integrated in this respect. Criminal law had become almost uniform for all regions, communities, and classes by the end of the imperial period. However, many sections of civil law remained diverse. While the middle and higher levels of the judiciary were integrated and uniform, unification affected local courts to a lesser extent. As a result, institutional heterogeneity was most prominent in the fields of local justice and civil law. The book examines creation and functioning of this hybrid space of local justice and civil law, in which imperial components coexisted with group, local, and regional ones.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was carried out with the support of the Russian Science Foundation within the framework of project No. 15–18-00119 “The Management of Ethnic Diversity and Ethno-confessional Conflict in Russia: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Experience”.
  The publication was carried out with the support of St. Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: justice
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: criminal and civil law
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: judicial and legal diversity
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: integration of the judicial and legal system
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: local justice
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic diversity
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Historical dynamics of judicial and legal integration of the Russian Empire
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metadata.value: Book
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