Book contents
- The Lawful Empire
- The Lawful Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 Minority Rights and Legal Integration in the Russian Empire
- 2 Borderlands No More
- 3 Implementing Legal Change
- 4 Images and Practices in the New Courts
- 5 Seeking Justice
- 6 Confronting the State
- 7 Dealing with Unrest
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Seeking Justice
Muslim Tatars Go to Court
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019
- The Lawful Empire
- The Lawful Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 Minority Rights and Legal Integration in the Russian Empire
- 2 Borderlands No More
- 3 Implementing Legal Change
- 4 Images and Practices in the New Courts
- 5 Seeking Justice
- 6 Confronting the State
- 7 Dealing with Unrest
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter five discusses the ways in which Muslim Tatars and other minorities actively used the circuit courts in civil and criminal cases, arguing that accommodation rather than conflict was the most striking form of interaction.
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- The Lawful EmpireLegal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, pp. 181 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019