Russia's dissident Old Believers, 1650-1950
By: edited by Georg B. Michels and Robert L. Nichols
Series: Minnesota Mediterranean and East European monographs -- 19; Minnesota Mediterranean and East European monographs -- 19.
Publisher: University of Minnesota
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780979121852
Subjects: Religious Dissenters; History; Old Believers; Church history
Other titles: Modern Greek studies yearbook. Supplement.
Notes: "A Modern Greek studies yearbook supplement."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Historiography and sources: Trends in studying the history of Old Belief among Russian scholars / Nikolai N. Pokrovskii; title: Past and current interpretations of Old Belief / Robert O. Crummey; title: Sources, bibliography, and historiography of Old Belief during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: system and structure / Edward Kasinec and Irina V. Pozdeeva ; Part II. Old Belief's place in Russian social and economic history: The silver age of Russia's Old Belief, 1905-17 / Irina V. Pozdeeva; title: The work ethic of Russian Old Believers and spiritual Christians / Aleksandr I. Klibanov; title: Old Belief and worldly performance: socioeconomic and sociocultural aspects of the Raskol in early industrial Russia / Manfred Hildermeier; title: Some observations on the social history of Old Belief during the seventeenth century / Georg B. Michels; title: Part III. Old belief's relations with Orthodox church and state: Peasant antimonarchism and uprisings in Siberia during the eighteenth century / Natal'ia S. Gur'ianova; title: Old Belief under surveillance during the reign of Alexander I / Robert L. Nichols; title: Priestly old belief in the early twentieth century: the conversion of archbishop Nikola (Pozdnev) of Saratov and the creation of a new Old Believer hierarchy / J. Eugene Clay; title: Part IV. Old believer culture: Text of oOd Belief's founding fathers: their archival transmission and preservation / Natal'ia S. Demkova; title: Deacon Aleksandr in search of the 'Genuine truth of god' / Andrei I. Pliguzov; title: The Old Believer press, 1905-17 / Roy R. Robson; title: Russian Old Believers in the mirror of comparative history / Donald W. Treadgold.