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

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breyfogle, Nicholas B., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.