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Book of Life of Doukhobors

Author : Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich
Publisher : Blaine Lake, Sask. : s.n.
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Dukhobors
ISBN : UCAL:B3181396

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Our Backs Warmed by the Sun

Author : Vera Maloff
Publisher : Caitlin Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773860399

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For many, the Doukhobor story is a sensational one: arson, nudity and civil disobedience once made headlines. But it isn't the whole story. Our Backs Warmed by the Sun: Memories of a Doukhobor Life is an intricately woven, richly textured memoir of a family's determination to live in peace and community in the face of controversy and unrest. When author Vera Maloff set out to find the truth about her family's history, she knew something of the struggles of living a pacifist, agrarian life in a world with opposing values. To find the bones of that history she turned to her mother Elizabeth, who, in her nineties, had forgotten nothing. In Our Backs Warmed by the Sun, the author, through the stories of her mother, describes a wholly activist life. The Doukhobors--both the Sons of Freedom and moderate sects--led anti-military protests throughout the early 1900s, harboured draft dodgers in the 60s, and stood up for their beliefs. In response, they were hosed down, arrested, and jailed. Vera learns of the confusion and fear when, as a child, Elizabeth and her family were interned in an abandoned logging camp while their father served time in Oakalla prison for charges related to a peaceful protest, and of her loneliness when, later, she was institutionalized--one of a series of Canadian government efforts in assimilation. By removing the children, it was believed, the cycle of protest and resistance could be broken. Tracing the Doukhobor movement from Russia, the author explores the spiritual influence of its leaders. She does not shy away from the controversial actions of the Sons of Freedom in the darkest days of bombings and arson, or the toll on families and communities, probing with a historian's curiosity and a daughter's tenderness. Elizabeth's story is also one of a small but thriving Kootenay community, and of the experiences of a family who stood by their beliefs. Laughter, ingenuity and tenacity are offered up in the pages of Our Backs Warmed by the Sun, an important and engaging window into our collective history.

The Doukhobors

Author : George Woodcock,Ivan Avakumovic
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773595545

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Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors

Author : Andrew Donskov
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780776628523

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This book is published in English. Following the completion of his major novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to denounce the privileges of his social class and its attendant material wealth and embrace the simple rural life of the peasantry. In the persecuted Russian Doukhobor sect, who also rejected militarism and church ritual in favour of finding God in their hearts, he saw a prime example of how it was possible to live his new-found pacifist ideals in everyday life. He was so taken with their lifestyle, calling the Doukhobors “people of the 25th century,” that, in 1898, he decided to help finance their mass emigration to Canada, away from the persecutions of the Russian church and state. Donskov’s expanded study presents an outline of Doukhobor history and beliefs, their harmony with Tolstoy’s lifelong aim of “unity of people”, and the portrayal of Doukhobors in Tolstoy’s writings. This edition features Tolstoy’s complete correspondence with Doukhobor leader Pëtr Vasil’evich Verigin. Three guest essays by prominent Canadian Doukhobors are also included. Supported by a considerable array of source materials, Donskov’s monograph will be of relevance to anyone interested in religious, philosophical, sociological, pacifist, historical, or literary studies.

Spirit Wrestlers

Author : Koozma J. Tarasoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Dukhobors
ISBN : OCLC:1292691985

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Negotiated Memory

Author : Julie Rak
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0774810319

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The Doukhobors, Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in Canada beginning in 1899, are known primarily to the Canadian public through the sensationalist images of them as nude protestors, anarchists, and religious fanatics - representations largely propagated by government commissions and the Canadian media. In Negotiating Memory, Julie Rak examines the ways in which autobiographical strategies have been employed by the Doukhobors themselves in order to retell and reclaim their own history. Drawing from oral interviews, court documents, government reports, prison diaries, and media accounts, Rak demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both "classic" and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations. More than a historical work, this book brings together recent theories concerning subjectivity, autobiography, and identity, and shows how Doukhobor autobiographical discourse forms a series of ongoing negotiations for identity and collective survival that are sometimes successful and sometimes not. An innovative study, Negotiating Memory will appeal to those interested in autobiography studies as well as to historians, literary critics, and students and scholars of Canadian cultural studies.

The Doukhobors of British Columbia

Author : Doukhobor Research Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : UOM:39015026097413

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The Kissing Fence

Author : B. A. Thomas-Peter
Publisher : Caitlin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1773860232

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1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP, the children attend mandatory school. They must speak in English and observe Canadian customs and religious practices. Seeking to protect the younger children and suffering mistreatment at the hands of the officials, Pavel and Nina struggle to keep their culture alive and remain resilient. 2018, Vancouver: After more than ten years in business, William has rejected his Doukhobor heritage and is now adept at juggling the demands of his business importing sporting goods. Surrounded by the material wealth he has amassed, William feels justified in enjoying his prosperity--even if he is emotionally distant from his wife and barely knows his daughter--he has made sacrifices to succeed in life as well as making some shady deals. When a cycling accident ends with William in the hospital with a concussion, doctors discover a mass on his brain. He is rushed into surgery, but instead of improving after his operation, William's life starts to tumble out of control: he loses his grasp on the illegitimate side of his business arrangements, an affair threatens his marriage, an employee turns up dead, and then the police come knocking. These two stories converge as Pavel and Nina leave New Denver and struggle to build a life outside the dormitory walls, while William begins to question his own values, motivations, and accountability. A powerful and emotional novel, The Kissing Fence examines generational trauma through one family's story of obligation, justice, and belonging. A story of conflicting cultural tensions that questions how we define success, identity, and our community.

Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians

Author : John A. Fleming,Michael J. Rowan
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0888644183

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With over 100 colour photographs, Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians offers a stunning visual record of the culture and values of these four ethno-cultural groups. Authors John Fleming and Michael Rowan take an interpretive approach to the importance of folk furniture and its intimate ties to people's values and beliefs. Photographer James Chambers beautifully captures both representative and exceptional artifacts, from large furniture items such as storage chests, benches, cradles, and tables, to small kitchen items including spoons, breadboxes, and cookie cutters.

Toil and Peaceful Life

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Canada
ISBN : NWU:35556019620962

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To America with the Doukhobors

Author : Leopolʹd Antonovich Sulerzhit︠s︡kiĭ
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0889770255

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To America with the Doukhobors by Leopolʹd Antonovich Sulerzhit︠s︡kiĭ Pdf

This diary, written by a Russian immigrant at the turn of the century, describes the experiences of the Doukhobors as they immigrate to and settlein Western Canada. It outlines the religious persecution they suffered inRussion, their religious beliefs and customs and details their pioneer life.[$

Our Backs Warmed by the Sun

Author : Maloff Vera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1773860860

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Heretics and Colonizers

Author : Nicholas B. Breyfogle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463563

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Heretics and Colonizers by Nicholas B. Breyfogle Pdf

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 environment of the South Caucasus, and their evolving relations with Russian state power. He draws on a wide variety of archival sources, including a large collection of previously unexamined letters, memoirs, and other documents produced by the sectarians that allow him unprecedented insight into the experiences of colonization and religious life. Although the settlers suffered greatly in their early years in hostile surroundings, they in time proved to be not only model Russian colonists but also among the most prosperous of the Empire's peasants. Banished to the empire's periphery, the sectarians ironically came to play indispensable roles in the tsarist imperial agenda. The book culminates with the dramatic events of the Dukhobor pacifist rebellion, a movement that shocked the tsarist government and received international attention. In the early twentieth century, as the Russian state sought to replace the sectarians with Orthodox settlers, thousands of Molokans and Dukhobors immigrated to North America, where their descendants remain to this day.

The Community Doukhobors

Author : John W. Friesen,Michael M. Verigin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Doukhobors
ISBN : UOM:39015033250567

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Room for All of Us

Author : Adrienne Clarkson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143185796

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Room for All of Us by Adrienne Clarkson Pdf

In this exciting and revealing personal inquiry, former governor general Adrienne Clarkson explores the immigrant experience through the people who have helped transform Canada. The Canadians she befriends—whether an Ismaili doctor, a Doukhobor farmer, a Holocaust survivor, or a Vietnam War deserter—illustrate the changing idea of what it means to be Canadian and the kind of country we have created over the decades. Like her, many of the people who came did not have a real choice: they often arrived friendless and with a sense of loss. Yet their struggles and successes have enriched Canada immeasurably.What drove them to become the kind of people they have become? What would have happened to them if Canada had not taken them in? What have they added to our national life us as we go forward in the twenty-first century? Written with humour, insight and personal revelation, Room for All of Us is a tale of many destinies. Like W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants, Clarkson’s book offers a richly textured, intimate and unforgettable portrait of a changing country and its people.