TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Bankrupts and usurers of imperial Russia : debt, property, and the law in the age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
T2  - Harvard historical studies
A1  - Antonov, Sergei, 1977- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/kansalliskirjastofikka/Record/fikka.3051967
AB  - "Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia explores the culture of money and credit in imperial Russia through the eyes of ordinary individuals. Moving beyond the stereotypes of wasteful nobles, backward merchants, and ruthless moneylenders, this study recreates the daily tangle of motivations, practices, and disputes that preceded and underpinned Russia's "great reforms" of the mid-nineteenth century. Sergei Antonov uses close readings of previously unexamined legal cases to argue that Russian courts, despite their many shortcomings, provided a reasonably efficient forum for defining, promoting, and protecting private property interests. At the same time, debt cases reveal beliefs and attitudes shared by members of various classes and legal estates into which Russia's population was officially divided, and indicate the existence of a single, although amorphous, propertied class previously assumed to be absent in pre-revolutionary Russia"--
SN  - 978-0-674-97148-6 sidottu
SN  - 0-674-97148-5 sidottu
KW  - 1800-luku
KW  - Debtor and creditor : Russia : History : 19th century.
KW  - Credit : Law and legislation : Russia : History : 19th century.
KW  - Debt : Russia : History : 19th century.
KW  - Credit : Russia : History : 19th century.
KW  - Usury : Russia : History : 19th century.
KW  - velat
KW  - velallinen
KW  - velkoja
KW  - luotonanto
KW  - lainsäädäntö
KW  - historia
KW  - velkaantuminen
KW  - koronmaksut
KW  - yhteiskuntaolot
KW  - Russia : Social conditions : 1801-1917.
KW  - Venäjä
ER  -