Heretics and colonizers : forging Russia's empire in the south Caucasus

Heretics and colonizers : forging Russia's empire in the south Caucasus / Nicholas B. Breyfogle.

"In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious culture. He reconstructs the story of the religious sectarians (Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks) who settled, either voluntarily or by force, in the...

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Main Author: Breyfogle, Nicholas B., 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Land settlement > Caucasus, South.
Dissenters, Religious > Caucasus, South.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Dissenters, Religious
Ethnic relations
Land settlement
Siedlung
Caucasus, South > History > 19th century.
Caucasus, South > Ethnic relations.
South Caucasus
Kaukasus > Süd
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Toleration through isolation : the edict of 1830 and the origins of Russian colonization in Transcaucasia
  • To a land of promise : sectarians and the resettlement experience
  • "In the bosom of an alien climate" : ecology, economy and colonization
  • Heretics into colonizers : changing roles and transforming identities on the imperial periphery
  • Frontier encounters : conflict and coexistence between colonists and south Caucasians
  • From colonial settlers to pacifist insurgents : the origins of the Dukhobor movement, 1887-1895
  • Peasant pacifism and imperial insecurities : the burning of weapons, 1895-1899
  • The end of an era and its meanings.

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