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Cover -- The State Versus The People -- Copyright -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Abbreviations And Glossary -- Notes On The Text -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Law And Revolution -- The Bolsheviks And The Law -- Revolutionary Justice Versus Revolutionary Violence -- The State Versus The People -- 1 Creating Revolutionary Justice -- The Decree On Courts -- The First Trials In Petrograd -- Press Tribunals -- The Formation Of Provincial Tribunals -- Defending Revolutionary Justice -- The Supreme Tribunal -- Streamlining Provincial Tribunals -- Attacking Revolutionary Terror 2 Extending State Authority -- Military Tribunals -- Transport Tribunals -- Travelling Sessions -- Unifying The Tribunal System -- Inspecting Tribunals -- From Revolutionary Consciousness To Revolutionary Legality -- The Persistence Of Exceptional Justice -- 3 Categorizing Counter-revolution -- The Emergence Of Counter-revolution -- The Expansion Of Counter-revolution -- Quantifying Counter-revolution -- Quantifying Counter-revolutionaries -- Mass Crimes And Shock Campaigns -- The Search For Stable Categories -- 4 The Trial -- The Pre-trial Process -- The Revolutionary Judge The Revolutionary Lawyer -- In Court -- Punishment And Revolutionary Consciousness -- Quantifying Punishment -- From 'model' Trial To 'show' Trial -- 5 The Logic Of Mercy -- The Nature Of Cassation -- A Dialogue On Justice -- The Prevalence Of Amnesties -- The Importance Of Amnesties -- Other Acts Of Mercy -- The Logic Of Mercy -- 6 Publicizing Revolutionary Justice -- The Educational Role Of Law -- The Language Of Justice -- Images Of Justice -- The Trial Of The Socialist Revolutionaries -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Material -- Legal Periodicals -- Newspapers And Periodicals -- Film Contemporary Documents And Publications -- Memoirs, Diaries, And Letters -- Secondary Sources -- Index Matthew Rendle. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World