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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi (1941-....)
Titre(s) : Crime and punishment in the Russian revolution [Texte imprimé] : mob justice and police in Petrograd / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa examines in detail
the convulsions of the revolutionary year from March 1917 to March 1918 through the
lens of violent crime, police behavior, and the responses of ordinary people in the
capital city, St. Petersburg. A frightening rise in crime, especially violent crime,
threatened the daily life of ordinary citizens. They often took the law into their
own hands, and frequently resorted to mob justice, a reflection of the breakdown of
the social fabric as well as the psychological state of people uneasy about or threatened
by the changes going on around them. Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution
examines how the new police power created under the Provisional Government broke down,
the nature of the crimes threatening the city, and how people reacted. It then explores
how violent crime continued to rise under the Bolshevik regime, and what the Bolsheviks
did to control upheaval in the streets. The result is a new way of looking at the
nature of Bolshevik power after the October Revolution. The violent explosion of drunken
pogroms in November and December 1917 greatly shocked the Bolshevik leadership. Unlike
previous works that treat them as a minor episode, this book considers the drunken
pogroms the crucial turning point of the Bolsheviks' policy on the maintenance of
law and order. The Bolshevik leadership reconstituted the police as a strongly centralized
force with power over the local forces and militias, establishing a top-down pattern
of control that would continue, even intensify, when the capital was moved to Moscow"
Sujet(s) : Criminalité -- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) -- 1900-1945
Lois -- Application -- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) -- 1900-1945
Police -- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) -- 1900-1945
Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) -- 1917-1921 (Révolution)
Indice(s) Dewey :
364.947 (23e éd.) = Criminologie - Europe de l'Est Russie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674972063. - ISBN 0674972066
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45687625j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45687625
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
