Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia

Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Sergei Antonov

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$55.00 • £44.95 • €49.50

ISBN 9780674971486

Publication Date: 10/10/2016

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400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

6 halftones, 14 tables

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Introduction
I. The Culture of Debt
- 1. Usurers’ Tales
- 2. Nobles and Merchants
- 3. The Boundaries of Risk
- 4. Fraud, Property, and Respectability
- 5. Kinship and Family
II. Debt and the Law
- 6. Debtors and Bureaucrats
- 7. In the Pit with Debtors
- 8. Intermediaries, Lawyers, and Scriveners
- 9. Creditors and Debtors in Pre-Reform Courts
Conclusion
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: The Table of Ranks (as of 1850)
Appendix C: St. Petersburg Pawnbrokers, 1866
Appendix D.1: Objectives of Legal Representation, Based on the Powers of Attorney Registered at the Moscow Chamber of Civil Justice
Appendix D.2: Legal Representatives Registered at the Moscow Chamber of Civil Justice
Appendix E: Agreement to Provide Legal Services, 1865
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2017 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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