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Jane Burbank
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Professor of History
Harvard University, Ph.D., 1981

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Research Interests:

Russian history; legal culture; imperial polities; peasants.

Selected Works:

 RussianEmpire.jpg Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930, eds. Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, Anatolyi Remnev (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007)
JaneBurbank.jpg Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).  For information and materials related to this book, go to: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/burbank/

"Coming into the Territory: Uncertainty and Empire,"  with Mark von Hagen, in Jane Burbank et al, eds., Russian Empire: Space, People, Power 1700-1930 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 1-29.

"Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law, and Rights in the Early Twentieth Century," in Jane Burbank et al, eds., Russian Empire: Space, People, Power 1700-1930 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 196-217.

"An Imperial Rights Regime: Law and Citizenship in the Russian Empire,"  Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 7, 3 (Summer 2006): 397-431.

"Mercy, Punishment, and Law:  The Qualities of Justice at Township Courts," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 7, 1 (Winter 2006): 23-60.

 Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire, edited with David L. Ransel, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; paperback, 1989).

Perestroika and Soviet Culture, edited with William G. Rosenberg, Michigan Quarterly Review, special issue, Fall 1989.

"Narodnye sudy, imperskoe zakonodatel'stvo i grazhdanstvo v Rossii," in Aleksei Miller, ed., Rossiiskaia imperiia v sravnitel'noi perspektive (Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2004), 320-358.

Litiges civiles et societe dans la Russie rurale, 1905-1917, Geneses 50 (March 2003): 24-49.

"Insult and Punishment in Rural Courts: The Elaboration of Civility in Late Imperial Russia," Etudes rurales 149-150 (January-June 1999): 147-171.

"Legal Culture, Citizenship, and Peasant Jurisprudence: Perspectives from the Early Twentieth Century," in Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864_1994: Power, Culture, and the Limits of Legal Order, ed. Peter Solomon, Jr. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharp, 1997), pp. 82-106.

"The Intelligentsia," inCritical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914_1921, eds. Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev and William G. Rosenberg (London: Arnold, 1997), pp. 515-528. Articles for both Russian and English editions.

"Were the Russian Intelligently Organic Intellectuals?," in Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, and Donald M. Reid, eds., Intellectuals and Political Life (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), 97-120.

"A Question of Dignity: Peasant Legal Culture in Late Imperial Russia," Continuity and Change 10, no. 3 (1995), 391-404.

"Lenin and the Law in Revolutionary Russia," Slavic Review 54, no. 1 (Spring 1995), 23-44.

"Discipline and Punish in the Moscow Bar Association," Russian Review 54, no. 1 (January 1995), 44-64.

"Controversies over Stalinism: Searching for a Soviet Society," Politics and Society 19, no. 3 (1991): 325-340.

 

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