The Ethnic and the Religious in the Old Believers Question in the Mid–Late 19th Century

Verniaev, Igor

PII

S0869-54150000339-5-1

DOI

10.7868/S50000339-5-1

Publication type

Article

Status

Published

Authors

Igor Verniaev

Volume/ Edition

Volume / Issue 3

Pages

98-113

Abstract

The article examines the changes in the image of the Old Believers in the governmental and intellectual circles of Russia in the mid–late 19th century. These changes were connected with the transformation of the main categorizations of the empire’s population. Official religious and social categorizationswere gradually losing their importance against the backdrop of strengthening of the importance of ethnic classification of the imperial diversity, and actualization of ethnic categories in governmental discourses and practices. The factor of the Old Believers’ schism was becoming less of an issue in the new context. Ideas on the Old Believers as the most stable Russian ethnic element, ethnic-cultural “core” of the Russian people, and the ally of the empire in the implementation of integration policy in the outskirts were simultaneously strengthening. The new notions and persistence of traditional views defined a compromise nature of legislation in the 1870–1880s with regard to the Old Believers.

Keywords

Russian Empire, nineteenth century, Old Believers, policies, religious and ethnic categorization, legislation on Old Believers

Date of publication

01.05.2018

Year of publication

2018

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625

References

GOST	Verniaev I. The Ethnic and the Religious in the Old Believers Question in the Mid–Late 19th Century // Ethno review. – 2018. – Issue 3 C. 98-113 .
MLA	Verniaev, Igor "The Ethnic and the Religious in the Old Believers Question in the Mid–Late 19th Century." Ethno review. 3 (2018).:98-113.
APA	Verniaev I. (2018). The Ethnic and the Religious in the Old Believers Question in the Mid–Late 19th Century. Ethno review. no. 3, pp.98-113

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