Wilson Center Experts
Sergei I. Zhuk
Research Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
; Ukraine
Affiliation:
PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
Wilson Center Project(s):
Russia’s Last Reformation: Peasants and Religious Sects in the South of the Russian Empire, 1830-1905
Term:
Aug 01, 2002
May 01, 2003
Project Summary
Examines the origins and evolution of the theology and religious practices of radical peasant sects and their contribution to an alternative culture in the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. A revisionist interpretation of these sects as representative of the delayed European Radical Reformation and, simultaneously, as agents of modernization.