The Old Faith and the Russian Land : : A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals /

The Old Faith and the Russian Land : : A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals / / Douglas Rogers.

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The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a worl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Rogers, Douglas,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Culture and Society after Socialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 10 halftones, 1 table, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Names
  • Introduction: Ethics, Russia, History
  • Part I. An Ethical Repertoire
  • 1. In Search of Salvation on the Stroganov Estates
  • 2. Faith, Family, and Land after Emancipation
  • Part II. The Generations and Ethics of Socialism
  • 3. Youth: Exemplars of Rural Socialism
  • 4. Elders: Christian Ascetics in the Soviet Countryside
  • Part III. Struggles to Shape an Emergent Ethical Regime
  • 5. New Risks and Inequalities in the Household Sector
  • 6. Which Khoziain? Whose Moral Community?
  • 7. Society, Culture, and the Churching of Sepych
  • 8. Separating Post-Soviet Worlds? Priestly Baptisms and Priestless Funerals
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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