The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863–1917

Bruce F. Adams

Published by Cornell University Press 2019

The Politics of Punishment

Prison Reform in Russia, 1863–1917

Bruce F. Adams

In the series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501747762

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About this book

Bruce F. Adams examines how Russia's Main Prison Administration was created, the number of prisoners it managed in what types of prisons, and what it accomplished. While providing a thorough account of prison management at a crucial time in Russia's history, Adams explores broader discussions of reform within Russia's government and society, especially after the Revolution of 1905, when arguments on such topics as parole and probation boiled in the arena of raucous public debate.

Author / Editor information

Bruce F. Adams (1946-2008) was Professor of History at the University of Louisville. He is the author of Tiny Revolutions in Russia.

Reviews

A seminal work of meticulous scholarship. The Politics of Punishment is especially and unreservedly recommended for college and university library collections. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject.

Adams provides a useful corrective to popular conceptions about Imperial Russia by showing convincingly that the exile system played a small and even diminishing part in the Russian system of incarceration.

On the basis of substantial archival research, Adams describes in tremendous detail the complex social and intellectual milieu that underlay the struggle for reform of Russia's prisons, as well as the tortuous administrative and legislative process by which it developed.

Those who are interested in the history of prisons and how societies have dealt with crime will find the book of considerable interest, but it has a much wider appeal as well, because it is one of the most detailed and careful studies of how the late imperial bureaucracy dealt with a significant issue.

This is a useful and solidly researched survey of imperial Russia's efforts to improve its prisons in the half century before the revolution. On the basis of largely unexplored archival documents, Bruce F. Adams follows the struggle of state officials to create penal institutions that met the standards established in Western Europe and the United States.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. The Movement to Abolish Corporal Punishment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter Two. Prison Administration in the Ministry of Internal Affairs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter Three. The Commissions Discuss Prison Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter Four. The Main Prison Administration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter Five. Further Efforts at Reform and the Denouement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 246
Keywords: Russian Revolution 1905; Russian prison; Main Prison Administration; prison managment

eBook

Published: September 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501747762