Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
b'Law. How does the state form and use it? How do people use and shape it? How does law shape culture? How does the practice of law change over time in a modernizing colony? What was stable and what was malleable in the application of law in early modern Russia versus its Central Asian colony in the Empire\\u2019s final century? What\\u2019s the difference between a bribe and a gift?\\nThese are some of the questions at the heart of this fascinating conversation about two books that probe the theoretical and instrumental underpinnings, as well as the everyday practice, of law in different periods and regions of the Russian Empire.\\xa0Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia\\xa0(Cambridge UP, 2012)\\xa0by Nancy Kollmann analyzes the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.\\xa0Visions of Justice: Shar\\u012b\\u2019a and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia\\xa0(Brill, 2017; available open access)\\xa0by Paolo Sartori excavates civil law practice to explore legal consciousness among the Muslim communities of Central Asia from the end of the eighteenth century through the fall of the Russian Empire, situating his work within a range of debates about colonialism and law, legal pluralism, and subaltern subjectivity. Paolo Sartori and Nancy Kollmann explore overlaps, divergence and much more that emerge from their respective findings in these deeply researched books.\\nPaolo Sartori is a Senior Research Associate and the Chairman of the Commission for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the\\xa0Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient and the Journal of Central Asian History\\xa0(Brill). In addition to\\xa0Visions of Justice, authoring several scholarly articles and co-editing essay collections, Sartori has co-authored two books,\\xa0Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva (19th\\u2013Early 20th\\xa0Centuries)\\xa0(Leiden: Brill, 2020), co-authored with Ulfat Abdurasulov and\\xa0\\xc9ksperimenty imperii: adat, shariat, i proizvodtsvo znanii v Kazakhskoi stepi\\xa0(Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2019), co-authored with Pavel Shabley.\\nNancy Kollmann is the William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University in California. In addition to\\xa0Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia\\xa0(2012), she is the author of\\xa0Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Muscovite Political System, 1345\\u20131547\\xa0(1987),\\xa0By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia\\xa0(1999);\\xa0The Russian Empire, 1450\\u20131801\\xa0(2017), and\\xa0Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe\\xa0(forthcoming August 2024).\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'