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GLENNYS YOUNG (Seattle, WA, USA) "INTO CHURCH MATTERS": LAY IDENTITY, RURAL PARISH LIFE, AND POPULAR POLITICS IN LATE IMPERIAL AND EARLY SOVIET RUSSIA, 1864-1928* On 2 August 1864, Tsar Alexander II signed legislation calling for the cre- ation of parish councils (popechitel'stva). In implementing this and other church reforms of the 1860s, political elites sought to improve the material, social, and even psychological condition of an impoverished, disdained, and even self-loathing parish clergy, a parish clergy often the object of parish- ioners' anti-clerical taunts, jokes, folktales, and much worse.1 For these re- formers, however, clerical welfare was but a necessary way station along the more-glorious final destination: the creation of a sional" clergy, which, eventually liberated from its estate (soslovie) strait- * Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Georges Florovsky Centennial Conference, held at the University of Michigan in October 1993, and at the 1993 AAASS Con- vention. In addition, some of the research presented here first appeared in "Trading Icons: Clergy, Laity, and Rural Cooperatives, 1921-28," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 26 (1992), 315-34. I would like to thank Steven Batalden, Catherine Evtuhov, Gregory Freeze, Patricia Herlihy, and Robert Weinberg for their valuable comments, and IREX
Russian History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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