Heretics and Colonizers
Subtitle: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Aug 11, 2011
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780801477461
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Source title: Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus