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8%OFFNicholas B. Breyfogle - Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia´s Empire in the South Caucasus - 9780801477461 - V9780801477461
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Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia´s Empire in the South Caucasus

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Description for Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia´s Empire in the South Caucasus Paperback. Num Pages: 372 pages, 23. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
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. Breyfogle focuses throughout on the lives of the peasant settlers, their interactions with the peoples and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
540g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801477461
SKU
V9780801477461
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About Nicholas B. Breyfogle
Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is coeditor of Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History and the online magazine Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.

Reviews for Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia´s Empire in the South Caucasus
In the growing literature on the Russian Empire, Nicholas B. Breyfogle's book on the tsarist colonization of Transcaucasia stands out as an exemplary account of how the changing attitudes of the autocracy toward its imperial peripheries, and the activities of exiled dissenters, shaped the nature of Russian colonialism. From a place to send religious heretics, the South Caucasus became a ... Read more

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