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To Make a Village Soviet - Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland (Paperback)
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To Make a Village Soviet - Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland (Paperback)
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
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In June 1949 the Soviet state arrested seven farmers from the
village of Bila Tserkva. Not wealthy or powerful, the men were
unknown outside their community, and few had ever heard of their
small, isolated village on the southwestern border of Soviet
Ukraine. Nevertheless, the state decided they were dangerous
traitors who threatened to undermine public order, and a regional
court sentenced them to twenty-five years of imprisonment for
treason. In To Make a Village Soviet Emily Baran explores why a
powerful state singled out these individuals for removal from
society. Bila Tserkva had to become a space in which Soviet laws
and institutions reigned supreme, yet Sovietization was an
aspiration as much it was a reality. The arrested men belonged to a
small and misunderstood religious minority, the Jehovah's
Witnesses, and both Witnesses and their neighbours challenged the
government's attempts to fully integrate the village into socialist
society. Drawing from the case file and interviews with the
families of survivors, Baran argues that what happened in Bila
Tserkva demonstrates the sheer ambition of the state's plans for
the Sovietization of borderland communities. A compelling history,
To Make a Village Soviet looks to Bila Tserkva to explore the power
and the limits of state control - and the possibilities created by
communities that resist assimilation.
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