Radical Protestant Christianity became widespread in rural parts
of southern Russia and Ukraine in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. "Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants,
Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine,
1830-1917," studies the origins and evolution of the theology and
practices of these radicals and their contribution to an
alternative culture in the region.
Arising from a confluence of immigrant Anabaptists from central
Europe and native Russian religious dissident movements, the new
sects shared characteristics with both their antecedents in Europe
and their contemporaries in the Shaker and Quaker movements on the
American frontier. The radicals' lives showed energy and initiative
reminiscent of Max Weber's famous paradigm in The Protestant Ethic
and the Spirit of Capitalism. And women participated in
congregations no less than men and often led them.
The radicals criticized the existing social and political order,
created their own educational system, and in some cases engaged in
radical politics. Their contributions, argues Zhuk, help explain
the receptiveness of peasants in this region to the revolutions of
1905 and 1917.
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