Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917
Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917
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俄罗斯迷失的改革:俄罗斯南部和乌克兰的农民、千禧年主义和激进教派,1830-1917 年
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10.1086/ahr.110.3.903
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2005
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Cathy A. Frierson
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW JUNE 2005 sectarians joined forces with populist revolutionaries against oppression and exploitation. Sectarians became agents of modernization, Zhuk explains, through their provision of literacy and the reading practice of Bible study, as well as their farming, markets, and trades. Zhuk thus draws direct parallels with the role of the Reformation in Western Europe, from expanding literacy to the “spirit of capitalism” and populist equivalents of the Peasant Wars. Zhuk presents a convincing revision of Daniel Field’s classic study of peasant disturbances in Chigirin after the emancipation of 1861, Rebels in the Name of the Tsar (1976), explaining that Stundist beliefs among the peasants of Chigirin had created a culture of millennialism, activism, and articulation of dissident views that was essential to their organized protest. He contributes to women’s history by highlighting the roles women assumed in the Shalaput and Stundist movements, which recognized some women as prophets, divine truth incarnate, and Mothers of God. They achieved this status after episodes of religious ecstasy. Zhuk fails to include Christine Worobec’s study of similar spirit possession among women at the same time in European Russia; this is a glaring omission from his bibliography.Zhuk’s unadorned style assumes a deadpan tone when he describes the sexual practices of sects within sects. Explaining that some sectarian men convinced believers that their penises were channels for Divine Love, which women could receive through copulation after confession to them, Zhuk ffattens his writing to avoid sensationalizing this theme; it becomes as effective as a straight man’s role in a comic act. Stundists, Shalaputs, and Baptists did not disappear with the Bolshevik Revolution. They appeared as inmates in the gulag, where fellow prisoners noted their quiet ways. They populated Zhuk’s childhood in Ukraine, where he and his buddies attended their services to see how high school musician friends combined rock with evangelical church music. Their post-Soviet revival in Russia continues to generate anxiety among Russian Orthodox officials and figures in the Russian government. The legacies of empire haunt the Kremlin still.