Heretics and colonizers
Subtitle: forging Russia's empire in the south Caucasus
By: Nicholas B. Breyfogle.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Land settlement -- Transcaucasia; Dissenters, Religious -- Transcaucasia; Transcaucasia -- History -- 19th century; Transcaucasia -- Ethnic relations
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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toleration through isolation : the edict of 1830 and the origins of Russian colonization in Transcaucasia; title: To a land of promise : sectarians and the resettlement experience; title: "In the bosom of an alien climate" : ecology, economy and colonization; title: Heretics into colonizers : changing roles and transforming identities on the imperial periphery; title: Frontier encounters : conflict and coexistence between colonists and south Caucasians; title: From colonial settlers to pacifist insurgents : the origins of the Dukhobor movement, 1887-1895; title: Peasant pacifism and imperial insecurities : the burning of weapons, 1895-1899; title: The end of an era and its meanings.