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Crime and punishment in the Russian revolution : mob justice and police in Petrograd /

"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 frighteni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Prelude to revolution
  • Crime on the rise
  • Why did the crime rate shoot up?
  • Militias rise and fall
  • An epidemic of mob justice
  • Crime after the Bolshevik takeover
  • The Bolsheviks and the militia
  • Conclusion.