Russian Peasants Go To Court

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CHAPTER 1: THE PEASANT QUESTION AND THE LAW

Photo of broom-making industry, Moscow province
Moscow Province with Township Courts
Map of Lake Region
Case Data
Subject Survey
Date Survey
Village Data

CHAPTER 2: A LITIGIOUS PERSON AND HER POSSIBILITIES

Photo of a village street, early twentieth century
Map of Lemozha Village

CHAPTER 3: A Day at court

A summons sent out by the Zaborovskii township court
Estates of plaintiffs and defendants
Estates of witnesses
Source of cases brought to county congresses of Moscow province
Source of cases brought to Moscow provincial board
Chart of time to hearing at two township courts
Table of time to hearing after case registration
Chart of distance to township court, all villages
Distance to township court from village
Chart of d istance to township courts in three provinces
Chart of distance to township court for defendants
Table of distance to township court for defendants
Chart of distance to township court for planitiffs
Table of distance to township court for plaintiffs
Number of cases decided in one year
Prewar cases in which witness appear
Chart of fines in prewar cases
Table of fines in prewar Moscow province
Months to fulfillment, all case types
Months to fulfillment in cases where a fine was collected
Months to fulfillment in criminal cases
Months to fulfillment in criminal cases with a fine
Months to fulfillment, from sentences to arrest
Average number of cases processed by a township court, 1905-1914

CHAPTER 4: all sorts of suits and disputes

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Chart of amounts requested by plaintiff
Table of amounts requested by plaintiff
Table of amounts requested categorized
Origins of suits, prewar cases
Objects named in prewar debt cases
Documents involved in all civil cases
Documents in debt cases
Success of plaintiffs in debt cases
Success of plaintiffs in civil cases
Number of witnesses in inheritance cases

CHAPTER 5: small crime and punishment

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Types of criminal cases at township courts
Number of criminal cases at township courts in Moscow Province
Chart of objects in theft cases, by category
Table of objects in theft cases
Subject of criminal cases at township courts, by category
Conviction rates for criminal cases, by type

CHAPTER 6: peasant jurisprudence

Photo of policemen and firemen, Moscow Province
Police as sole plaintiff
Plaintiff's sex in different township courts
Legal residence of plaintiffs and defendants
Chart of residence inside/outside township
Residence of parties, all cases
One or both parties reside outside township
Defendant's residence inside/outside township
Defendant's legal residence, by court
Plaintiff's residence inside/outside township
Plaintiff's legal residence, by court
Success of plaintiff in civil, criminal, and total cases
Success of plaintiff in civil cases
Success of plaintiff in criminal cases
Decisions in civil, criminal, and total cases
Charts of absence as explanation of decision by type of case
Table of absence as explanation of decision by type of case
Absence as explanation of decision by township
Explanations of decisions in civil suits
Number of witnesses by type of case
Percent of civil cases decided at Moscow courts
Percent of criminal cases decided at Moscow courts
Percent of total cases decided at Moscow courts
Cases decided and left undecided, Bogorodskii County
Cases decided and left undecided, Klinskii County
Cases decided and left undecided, Moskovskii County
Cases decided and left undecided, Zvenigorodskii County
Average number of cases decided/undecided in Moscow Province
Total number of cases decided/undecided in Moscow Province
Cases registered, decided, and undecided in Moscow Province, by county

CHAPTER 7: Legal recourse in a time of troubles

Photo of a peasant woman and her daughter, Moscow Province, 1900s
Appeals before and during World War I
Sex of plaintiffs before and during war
Plaintiff's sex and type of civil case by period
Plaintiff's sex in prewar and wartime cases by type
Chart of plaintiff's sex in wartime inheritance cases
Table of plaintiff's sex in inheritance cases during war
Sex of defendant before and during war
Defendant's sex in civil and criminal cases in wartime
Defendant's sex in prewar and wartime years by type of case
Subjects of cases against male defendants by period and type
Subjects of cases against male defendants before the war
Subjects of cases against male defendants during the war
Subject of criminal case when police plaintiff
Types of criminal cases, prewar and wartime
Subject of criminal cases brought by women against men by period
Types of criminal cases brought by women against men by period
Explanation of decisions in civil cases, Grebnevskii township 1917
Subject criminal cases Tsaritsynskii township 1916
Subject criminal cases Iaguninskii township 1916
Conviction rates for criminal cases by type
Chart of sentences in criminal cases by period
Table of sentences in criminal cases by period
Amount awarded in suits by period
Amount awarded in suits, prewar and wartime
Amount of fines by period
Arrest in days by period
Mir (reconciliation) as outcome by period
Chart of sex of parties who reconcile, before and during war
Table of sex of parties who reconcile, by period
Chart of sons and/or brothers in court before/after Revolution of 1917
Table of sons and/or brothers as parties before/after February 1917
Subjects of intra-family cases, Grebnevskii township 1917
Relationship of contesting parties, Grebnevskii township 1917
Relationship of contesting parties before and during war
Percent of intra-family cases, before and during war
Relationship of parties at court by period

CHAPTER 8: how different a justice?

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Statistical Analysis of Data

Sex of Defendants, Civil and Criminal Cases, Prewar Years
Sex of Plaintiffs and Defendants, Prewar Years, Civil and Criminal Cases
Relationship between Gender and Literacy, Plaintiffs
Relationship between Gender and Literacy, Defendants
Literacy of Female Plaintiffs and Female Defendants
Literacy of Male Plaintiffs and Male Defendants
Literacy of Plaintiffs and Defendants, Civil and Criminal Cases
Literacy and the Family Relationship between the Litigants
Legal Residence of the Plaintiffs and the Defendants, All Years
Outsiders in Criminal Cases, All Years
Decisions Made by the Judges: Contributing Factors