LEADER 04709nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910814632903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6356-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463563 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051141 035 $a(OCoLC)754718631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491828 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340571 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553905 035 $a(PQKB)10533529 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28725 035 $a(DE-B1597)515437 035 $a(OCoLC)1083592170 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463563 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138240 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491828 035 $a(OCoLC)922998268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138240 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051141 100 $a20040817d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeretics and colonizers$b[electronic resource] $eforging Russia's empire in the south Caucasus /$fNicholas B. Breyfogle 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (371 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7746-8 311 $a0-8014-4242-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 319-338) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Translation and Transliteration -- $tAbbreviations -- $tMaps -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tPART I. THE ROAD TO TRANSCAUCASIA -- $t1. TOLERATION THROUGH ISOLATION. The Edict of 1830 and the Origins of Russian Colonization in Transcaucasia -- $t2. TO A LAND OF PROMISE. Sectarians and the Resettlement Experience -- $tPART II. LIFE ON THE SOUTH CAUCASIAN FRONTIER -- $t3. "IN THE BOSOM OF AN ALIEN CLIMATE". Ecology, Economy, and Colonization -- $t4. HERETICS INTO COLONIZERS. Changing Roles and Transforming Identities on the Imperial Periphery -- $t5. FRONTIER ENCOUNTERS. Conflict and Coexistence between Colonists and South Caucasians -- $tPART III. THE DUKHOBOR MOVEMENT -- $t6. FROM COLONIAL SETTLERS TO PACIFIST INSURGENTS. The Origins of the Dukhobor Movement, 1887-1895 -- $t7. PEASANT PACIFISM AND IMPERIAL INSECURITIES. The Burning of Weapons, 1895-1899 -- $tTHE END OF AN ERA AND ITS MEANINGS -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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 colonization and religious life. Although the settlers suffered greatly in their early years in hostile surroundings, they in time proved to be not only model Russian colonists but also among the most prosperous of the Empire's peasants. Banished to the empire's periphery, the sectarians ironically came to play indispensable roles in the tsarist imperial agenda. The book culminates with the dramatic events of the Dukhobor pacifist rebellion, a movement that shocked the tsarist government and received international attention. In the early twentieth century, as the Russian state sought to replace the sectarians with Orthodox settlers, thousands of Molokans and Dukhobors immigrated to North America, where their descendants remain to this day 606 $aLand settlement$zCaucasus, South 606 $aDissenters, Religious$zCaucasus, South 607 $aCaucasus, South$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aCaucasus, South$xEthnic relations 615 0$aLand settlement 615 0$aDissenters, Religious 676 $a947.507 700 $aBreyfogle$b Nicholas B.$f1968-$01643397 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814632903321 996 $aHeretics and colonizers$93988624 997 $aUNINA