Marriage, Property, and Law in Late Imperial Russia

by William G. Wagner

The first systematic study of civil law in late Imperial Russia, this book shows that efforts to adjust family, property, and inheritance law to changing social and economic conditions often became intertwined with attempts to shape society in accordance with competing ideological ends. Through a restructuring of the family's legal basis, members of the growing professional class endeavored to promote conflicting conceptions of authority, individuality,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198204477
• ISBN13: 9780198204473
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.5"