Criminal Plot in the Russian Literature

Keywords: criminal law, crime, punishment, criminology, criminal plot, Russian literature, literary studies

Abstract

The review analyzes a monograph “Criminal plot in the Russian literature” (Moscow: Prospekt, 2021, 640 p.), written by Anatoly V. Naumov, a lawyer and outstanding researcher in the field of criminal law. In the reviewed book the scientist makes an attempt to explain the phenomenon of “criminal” through the disclosure of related criminal, criminological, philosophical and other basic problems, through the prism of a detailed study of a huge number of criminal plots contained in the works of the great Russian literature. In the context of such a study, the author refers to the works of more than 80 writers of Russian Empire, Soviet Union and of the contemporary Russia.

Author Biography

Sergey Markuntsov, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Sciences (Law), Professor

References

Klebanov L.R. (2021) Qualification of crimes in the plots of fiction. Moscow: Norma, 230 p. (in Russ.)

Klebanov L.R. (2006) The criminal and crime on pages of fiction. Moscow: Wolters Kluwer, 144 p. (in Russ.)

Naumov A.V. (2021) Posthumously defendant. Moscow: Prospect, 320 p. (in Russ.)

Naumov A.V. (2017) Criminal plot in Michail Bulgakov's novel “Master and Margarita”. Rossiyskaya yusticiya=Russian Justice, no. 2, pp. 69-72 (in Russ.)

Naumov A.V. (2006) Revolutionary extremism and terrorism in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel “Demons”. Zakonnost'=Legality, no. 5, pp. 46-50 (in Russ.)

Safronova E. Yu. (2013) Legal discourse in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky 1846-1862. Barnaul: Altay University Press, 182 p. (in Russ.)

Published
2022-03-24
How to Cite
MarkuntsovS. (2022). Criminal Plot in the Russian Literature. Law Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 15(4), 236-242. https://doi.org/10.17323/2072-8166.2022.4.236.242
Section
Book Review