Russia's Lost Reformation
Subtitle: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: July 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780801879159
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of religion; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Heresies, Christian; Christianity - History - General; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Russia; History; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Europe / General; Christian sects; Anthropology - Cultural; 19th century; Dissenters, Religious
First sentence: This chapter introduces the main themes of colonization, emancipation, and religious radicalism.
Description: "Radical Protestant Christianity became widespread in rural parts of southern Russia and Ukraine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917, studies the origins and evolution of the theology and practices of these radicals and their contribution to an alternative culture in the region."--BOOK JACKET.