TY - JOUR A1 - Giaro, Tomasz T1 - Russia and Roman Law : [Rezension zu: Martin Avenarius, Fremde Traditionen des römischen Rechts. Einfluß, Wahrnehmung und Argument des ›rimskoe pravo‹ im russischen Zarenreich des 19. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen: Wallstein 2014, 776 S., ISBN 978-3-8353-1541-9] T2 - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history N2 - The question of Russia’s European identity has traditionally been controversial. Usually, the country is either defined as belonging to Eastern Europe in a narrower sense or, contrarily, totally excluded from the concept of Europe. From the times of Czar Peter the Great (1689–1725), Russia acquired the unquestioned status of a European power; however, despite the "enlightened" reforms of Empress Catherine the Great (1762–1796), its society remained feudal, its economy backward and its government autocratic. Right up until its collapse, the Russian Empire was decidedly less urbanized and less advanced in agriculture in comparison not only with the West but also with East-Central Europe. ... Y1 - 2015 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54456 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-544566 SN - 1619-4993 SN - 2195-9617 N1 - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0 VL - 23 SP - 309 EP - 319 PB - Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte CY - Frankfurt, M. ER -