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Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries by John Bushnell (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253029651
ISBN-139780253029652
eBay Product ID (ePID)234994868
Product Key Features
Number of Pages346 Pages
Publication NameRussian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRussia & the Former Soviet Union, Sociology / General, Christianity / Orthodox, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, History
AuthorJohn Bushnell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight24.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"This is very much a book worth reading. It sheds interesting new light on sectarian practices in the countryside, and in the process forces us to revise the ways in which we think about the most basic aspects of rural life in imperial Russia."-- American Historical Review "An analysis of a previously understudied phenomenon, the book constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Russian peasant, religious, and matrimonial history."-- New Books Network "Drawing mainly on tax census and parish records, John Bushnell has produced an impressive study of marriage practices among Old Believer peasants in several districts in Vladimir, Kostroma, and Nizhnii Novgorod provinces between the early eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries."-- The Russian Review "Bushnell's study makes for remarkably interesting and engaging reading"-- Slavic Review "Bushnell is to be greatly commended for broadening the discussion on rural life in Russia."-- Journal of Modern History "This archival study makes a very interesting and important discovery: many peasant women in the Volga region did not marry during the 18th and 19th centuries--at least until the emancipation of serfs when this study breaks off. . . . The data on marriage aversion that Bushnell has collected in this study are extremely valuable. . . . And Bushnell's conlcuding observation that this phenomenon was not limited to Old Believer settlements in the Volga region makes further study of peasant marriage avoidance all the more important."--Georg P. Michels, Recensio, Drawing mainly on tax census and parish records, John Bushnell has produced an impressive study of marriage practices among Old Believer peasants in several districts in Vladimir, Kostroma, and Nizhnii Novgorod provinces between the early eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries., This is very much a book worth reading. It sheds interesting new light on sectarian practices in the countryside, and in the process forces us to revise the ways in which we think about the most basic aspects of rural life in imperial Russia.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentIntroduction: What is the Opposite of Eureka? 1. The Moral Economy of Russian Serf Marriage, 1580s-1750s: Serf Marriage Unregulated 2. Nobles Discover Peasant Women's Marriage Aversion 3. The Outer Limits of Female Marriage Aversion: Kuplia Parish in the 18th Century 4. Kuplia Parish, 1830-1850: Separation, Collapse, Resumption of Marriage 5. Spasovites: the Covenant of Despair 6. Baki: Resistance to Marriage on a Forest Frontier 7. Steksovo and Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn: Marriage Aversion in a Context of Prosperity Inconclusion Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction., John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified with female peasant marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more agency in the decision to marry than more common peasant tradition ordinarily allowed. Bushnell explores the cataclysmic social and economic impacts these decisions had on the villages, sometimes dragging entire households into poverty and ultimate dissolution. In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction.
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