Thomas Marsden

The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia

Bibikov's System for the Old Believers, 1841-1855

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Produktbeschreibung

Details an unprecedented attempt by the government of Russia's Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to eradicate what was seen as one of the greatest threats to its political security: the religious dissent of the Old Believers. The history of this religious persecution throws new light on the religious and political identity of the autocratic regime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780198746362
• ISBN-10: 0198746369
• Artikelnr.: 47867299

Autorenporträt

Thomas Marsden read History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, before receiving his DPhil as the Peter Storey Scholar at Balliol College. He is now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: Origins of the crisis: 1842-52
1: The Belaia Krinitsa Hierarchy
2: The Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery
3: The Beguny Commission and the Statistical Expeditions
Part 2: The Crisis unfolds: 1853-5
4: Bibikov's System
5: The Failure of Legality
6: The Crimean War and the Domestic Enemy
7: The Offensive against the Capitalist-Fanatics
8: The End of Bibikov's System
Epilogue
Conclusion
Bibliography