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To Make a Village Soviet

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland

By: Emily B. Baran

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To Make a Village Soviet

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland

By: Emily B. Baran

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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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Dissent on the Margins

How Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach about It

By: Emily B. Baran

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How Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach about It

By: Emily B. Baran

Emily B. Baran offers a gripping history of how a small, American-based religious community, the Jehovah's Witnesses, found its way into the Soviet Union after World War II, survived decades of brutal persecution, and emerged as one of the region's fastest growing religions after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. In telling the story of this often misunderstood faith, Baran explores the shifting boundaries of religious dissent, non-conformity, and human rights in the Soviet Union and its successor states. Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses are a fascinating case study of dissent beyond urban, intellectual nonconformists. Witnesses, who were generally rural, poorly educated, and utterly marginalized from society, resisted state pressure to conform. They instead constructed alternative communities based on adherence to religious principles established by the Witnesses' international center in Brooklyn, New York. The Soviet state considered Witnesses to be the most reactionary of all underground religious movements, and used extraordinary measures to try to eliminate this threat. Yet Witnesses survived, while the Soviet system did not. After 1991, they faced continuing challenges to their right to practice their faith in post-Soviet states, as these states struggled to reconcile the proper limits on freedom of conscience with European norms and domestic concerns. Dissent on the Margins provides a new and important perspective on one of America's most understudied religious movements.

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Oxford University Press

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To Make a Village Soviet

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland

By: Emily B. Baran

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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland

By: Emily B. Baran

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Dissent on the Margins

How Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach about It

By: Emily B. Baran

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How Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach about It

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To Make a Village Soviet

To Make a Village Soviet

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Dissent on the Margins

To Make a Village Soviet

To Make a Village Soviet

Dissent on the Margins

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