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To Make a Village Soviet : Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780228012474
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: To Make a Village SovietDDC classification:
  • 289.920947
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- TO MAKE A VILLAGE SOVIET -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Cast of Characters -- Maps follow page -- Introduction -- 1 The Village -- 2 The Passport -- 3 The Draft -- 4 The Ballot Box -- 5 The State Bonds -- 6 The School -- 7 The Farm -- 8 The Trial -- 9 Release -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah's Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and a minority religious community's enduring resistance to secular, socialist ideals.
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Cover -- TO MAKE A VILLAGE SOVIET -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Cast of Characters -- Maps follow page -- Introduction -- 1 The Village -- 2 The Passport -- 3 The Draft -- 4 The Ballot Box -- 5 The State Bonds -- 6 The School -- 7 The Farm -- 8 The Trial -- 9 Release -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah's Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and a minority religious community's enduring resistance to secular, socialist ideals.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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