Paul W. Werth, The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths, Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia

This compact monograph should become a classic source for students of imperial Russian history. Paul Werth takes up a complex and politically fraught subject—the autocracy’s management of non‑Orthodox religions—and provides us with a judicious account of both fundamental structures of confessional regulation and modifications introduced to this system during a century of challenges and adjustments. Among this book’s outstanding qualities are Werth’s refusal to simplify a story that has many s..

Paul W. Werth, The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths, Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia

This compact monograph should become a classic source for students of imperial Russian history. Paul Werth takes up a complex and politically fraught subject—the autocracy’s management of non‑Orthodox religions—and provides us with a judicious account of both fundamental structures of confessional regulation and modifications introduced to this system during a century of challenges and adjustments. Among this book’s outstanding qualities are Werth’s refusal to simplify a story that has many s..

Chris J. Chulos, Converging worlds

Chris Chulos’s study of peasant religious practice in the late imperial period makes a distinctive contribution to the enthusiastic, multi-voiced chorus of new works on Russian Orthodoxy. Chulos begins with a refreshingly personal and direct criticism of the artificial, but fervently sustained division between intellectually informed Orthodoxy and “unschooled faith.” As he eloquently suggests, peasant practitioners of Orthodoxy easily integrated ritual and theology; their religion was no less..

Ferro, Marc (dir.). – Le livre noir du colonialisme. xvie-xxie siècle : de l’extermination à la repentance. Paris, Robert Laffont, 2003, 843 p.; Courtois Stéphane, et al. – Le livre noir du communisme : crimes, terreurs et répression. Paris, Robert Laffont, 1997, ill., cartes, 846 p.

Le livre noir du colonialisme joins a now significant body of literature in addressing Europe’s reluctance to come to grips with the importance of colonization to its past. The question concerning this book is not the significance of its subject, but the implications of its approach. Since the 1970s or 1980s in the United States, more recently in France, “colonial studies” has become a field of academic inquiry, crossing disciplinary lines. There are now several alternative conceptions to bri..

The Iowa Homemaker vol.18, no.2

Special Invitation for One by Jane Helser, page 2 Whether Dress or Mate – Investigate by Dorothy Goeppinger, page 3 A Petition to Play by Ruth Sawin, page 4 Hold Your Horses by Berniece Williams, page 5 Fashion Maypole by Barbara Field, page 6 “Veishea-timing” by Beth Cummings, page 8 Learn All to Do All by Alvina Iverson, page 9 Fifty Grads Go to Work by Faithe Danielson, page 10 Throwing Bouquets by Winnifred Cannon, page 11 What’s New in Home Economics edited by Marjorie Pettinger, page 12 Behind Bright Jackets edited by Winnifred Cannon, page 14 Pie for All by Evelyn Burchard, page 15 “You Can’t Print That!” by Beth Johnson, page 16 Homemaking in the Hills by Carolyn Roller, page 17 Dear Someone, by Helen Greene, page 18 Picnic Precautions by Ida Halpin, page 20 Browned With Precision by Anne Halder Allen, page 21 From Carving to Kitchens by Ruth Dahlberg, page 22 Busy Summering by Betty Burbank and Henrietta Dunlop, page 23 Bowls With a Past by Jean Metcalf, page 2

Peasant settlers and the ‘civilizing mission’ in Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917

This article provides an introduction to one of the lesser-known examples of European settler colonialism, the settlement of European (mainly Russian and Ukrainian) peasants in Southern Central Asia (Turkestan) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It establishes the legal background and demographic impact of peasant settlement, and the role played by the state in organising and encouraging it. It explores official attitudes towards the settlers (which were often very negative), and their relations with the local Kazakh and Kyrgyz population. The article adopts a comparative framework, looking at Turkestan alongside Algeria and Southern Africa, and seeking to establish whether paradigms developed in the study of other settler societies (such as the ‘poor white’) are of any relevance in understanding Slavic peasant settlement in Turkestan. It concludes that there are many close parallels with European settlement in other regions with large indigenous populations, but that racial ideology played a much less important role in the Russian case compared to religious divisions and fears of cultural backsliding. This did not prevent relations between settlers and the ‘native’ population deteriorating markedly in the years before the First World War, resulting in large-scale rebellion in 1916