Controlling Revolution: Understandings of Violence through the Rural Soviet Courts, 1917–1923

Aaron B. Retish

Europe-Asia Studies, 2013, vol. 65, issue 9, 1789-1806

Abstract: This essay is a study of how Soviet jurists and rural citizens attempted to understand and control illicit social violence during the Civil War and its immediate aftermath in the rural courts. It examines how Soviet leaders, people's courts and criminologists understood the role of the courts in controlling violence and how decisions of local courts actually limited the effects of the violence of revolution and civil war. It underscores the complexity of violence and the need to understand state and peasant attempts to control social violence in an age marked by political, state violence.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2013.842363

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