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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAlong the way, readers learn a great deal about the relationship between the Russian church and the state, and about the inner logics of a major religious schisms, whose lessons apply to Russian history and beyond. Religious history is often neglected in the history of late imperial Russia, and this book also helps to rectify that imbalance.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Ritual and the Origins of Edinoverie
2. Edinoverie Transformed, 1801-1855
3. A "Step to Orthodoxy" No More, 1865-1886
4. Crisis, Reform, and Revolution, 1905-1918
5. Lived Edinoverie, 1825-1917
Conclusion: Decline, Disappearance, Reinvention
Appendix A: The Rules of Metropolitan Platon, 27 September 1800
Appendix B: Replacements for the Rules of Platon, 1917-1918
Bibliography
Index
