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Languages of the Lash - Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia (Hardcover)
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Languages of the Lash - Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia (Hardcover)
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Lashings, branding irons, and harsh treatment in labor camps all
come to mind when one thinks of Russian methods of punishment.
Analyzing the "languages of the lash"—the official definitions
and discussions of corporal punishment—Schrader explores the
relationship between the punishment of social deviants and the
stability of the imperial Russian state. Interpreting penal law and
practice in a broad social and political context, she illuminates
the process by which Russia developed and reformulated corporal
punishment from the era of Catherine the Great to the revolution of
1905. In law and in practice, imperial Russian officials mapped and
remapped society as they articulated various languages of
punishment. One map was social: the lower classes were punished
corporally while the nobility and educated members of society were
exempt from corporal punishment. Another map was geographical, in
that non-Russian ethnic groups and people exiled to Siberia were
treated differently from those who lived in the Russian center.
Biological differences constituted yet another map of society, as
the young, the very old, women, and the infirm were regarded as
weaker than able-bodied men and therefore less able to withstand
corporal punishments. Schrader's broad study enriches our
understanding of the political, cultural, and social processes at
work in Imperial Russia. Tracing penal reform over nearly two
centuries, she challenges standard assumptions about Russian
history and the roles of gender, the body, and ethnicity in
political and cultural discourse.
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