Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus by Breyfogle, Nicholas B

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in near fne dust jacket. A tight, clean and unmarked copy. 347pp. Illustrations, maps.. ISBN: 0801442427.

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Hardback. New. In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious culture.

New. 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 newly conquered lands of Transcaucasia in the nineteenth century. By ordering this migration in 1830, Nicholas I attempted at once to cleanse Russian Orthodoxy of heresies and to populate the newly annexed lands with ethnic Slavs who would shoulder the burden of imperial construction. Breyfogle focuses throughout on the lives of the peasant settlers, their interactions with the peoples and environment of the South Caucasus, and their evolving relations with Russian state power. He draws on a wide variety of archival sources, including a large collection of previously unexamined letters, memoirs, and other documents produced by the sectarians that allow him unprecedented insight into the experiences of… Read More

Cornell Univ Pr, 2005. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 372 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

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